The War Years, 1940 –1946
Volume 6
edited by David Chinitz and Ronald Schuchard

Table of Contents

GENERAL INTEREST 4
Scholarly and Professional

30

Literature

American Literature

55

Paperbacks 78

British Literature

Project MUSE

91

European & Comparative Literature

Ordering Information

92

Literary History, Theory & Criticism 52–53, 55, 87

Sales Representation

93

Mathematics 72

Author Index

96

Physics 73

Title Index

97

SUBJECTS
American Studies

40

Business & Economics
Current Affairs

16–17, 32–33

16–17, 22–23, 48–49, 58–59

Education

18–19, 48–50, 84–86

Health & Wellness

4–15

History 60
American History
Ancient History
Chesapeake Bay Regional History
European History
History of Medicine
History of Science & Technology

30–40, 78–80
42
36–38
82
61, 81, 89
43–47

Military History

35

Russian History

83

Interdisciplinary Studies

86

24–25
54

Political Science

88

American Government

75

International Relations
Popular Culture

74
24–25

Poetry 51
Public Health

57–60

Psychology

50, 57

Reference 68
Religion

41, 47

Science 22–23
Biology

20–21, 62–67, 69–71

Life Science

20–21, 62–71

Science & Technology

26–27

Sports 26–27
Student Success

18–19

Technical & Business Writing

56

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General Interest

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Health / Wellness

A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book

The 36-Hour Day
A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have
Alzheimer Disease, Other Dementias,
and Memory Loss
sixth edition

NANCY L. MACE, MA,
and PETER V. RABINS, MD, MPH
Through five editions, The 36-Hour Day has been the “bible” for
families who love and care for people with Alzheimer disease. This
book offers much-needed information and support to millions of
people throughout the world. Whether a person has Alzheimer
disease, vascular dementia, or another form of dementia, he or she
will struggle with independent living and most likely face medical,
behavioral, mood, and legal and financial problems. This essential
resource will help family members and caregivers address all of
these challenges and simultaneously cope with their own emotions
and needs.

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"We yearn for the day when there is no Alzheimer's. Until then, there is
The 36-Hour Day." — Jeffrey Cummings, MD, ScD, Director, Cleveland
Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health

After 35 years, still the
indispensable guide for
countless families and
professionals caring for
someone with dementia.
See p. 90 for the story of
The 36-Hour Day

Thoroughly revised and updated, this sixth edition features easy-to-see take-away
messages about every aspect of caregiving. Informed by new research into the causes
of dementia and the search for therapies to prevent or cure dementia, this edition also
includes new and expanded information on:
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what we know about how to prevent dementia and the diseases that cause it

Nancy L. Mace, MA, retired, was a
consultant to and member of the board

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devices to make life simpler and safer for people who have dementia

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behavioral and neuropsychiatric symptoms

•

strategies for delaying symptoms in a person who has dementia

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changes in Medicare and other health care insurance laws

Price Teaching Service of the Department

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changes in banking practices with regard to competency

of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of

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palliative care, hospice care, durable power of attorney, and guardianship

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Continuing Care at Home programs

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Parkinson’s related dementia

Management Services at the University of

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dementia due to traumatic brain injury

Maryland, Baltimore County. He was the

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choosing and moving a person to residential care

founding director of the geriatric psychiatry

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support groups for caregivers, friends, and family members

The central idea underlying the book — that much can be done to improve the lives
of people with dementia and of those caring for them — remains the same. Still very
much the book readers turn to, this fresh edition of The 36-Hour Day is the definitive
guide for those caring for someone with dementia.

of directors of the Alzheimer’s Association
and an assistant in psychiatry and
coordinator of the T. Rowe and Eleanor

the Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine. Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH, is a
professor in the Erickson School of Aging

program and the first holder of the Richman
Family Professorship of Alzheimer Disease
and Related Disorders in the Department of
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
of the Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine.
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Health / Wellness

A 36-Hour Day Book

A Loving Approach
to Dementia Care
Making Meaningful Connections with the Person
Who Has Alzheimer’s Disease or Other Dementia
or Memory Loss
second edition

LAURA WAYMAN
Caring for someone with dementia means devotedly and patiently
doing a hundred little things each day. Few care providers are
trained to meet the challenges of dementia, however — and that
is where A Loving Approach to Dementia Care can help. The book
offers practical, compassionate advice on overcoming caregiving
obstacles and maintaining meaningful relationships with loved ones
who have dementia and memory loss.

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Laura Wayman’s program of care emphasizes communication,
affirmative response, and empowerment — transforming the
caregiving process from a burden into a fulfilling journey. Her true
stories of caregiving illustrate the principles of this loving approach,
giving readers essential tools for connecting with people who have
dementia. A practitioner whose strategies have seen great success
in thousands of individual homes and facilities across the country,
Wayman encourages caregivers to follow these five techniques
that can both empower caregivers and make their situation more
manageable:
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Take Time and Just Be

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Don’t Ask Questions or Give Too Many Options

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Remain Calm, Confident, Patient, and Present in the Moment

•

Ask for Help from Family and Care Professionals

•

Educate Yourself

A special guide helping
caregivers stay warmly
connected with their
loved ones who have
memory loss.
Praise for the first edition

“It is good to have a guide that is as intuitive and humane as Laura Wayman. This book
In this thoroughly revised edition,
Wayman adds fresh caregiving insights,
two new chapters that explore the
dangers of denial by both caregivers
and people with memory loss, and
the “Dementia-Aware Guide to
Caregiving” — a quick reference tool for
advice on how to respond to specific
difficult behaviors. In addition to offering
valuable lessons on providing the best
possible care, Wayman urges caregivers
not to neglect themselves: take care
of yourself so you will have physical
and mental energy to share with your
loved one. Her practical tips will help
you balance your own needs with those
of your loved one, creating a more
positive experience for everyone. A
Loving Approach to Dementia Care is
an empathetic guide, filled with respect,
calm, creativity — and love.

can be read profitably by family and friends of those affected with this disease and by
anyone contemplating a career in elderly care. It will help lighten the burden for
caregiver and patient alike.” — Metapsychology
“It is a book I wanted to share with everybody. It made me laugh out loud, it made me
cry (really!) but most of all it made me think . . . as a resource I feel it is invaluable and
I will be keeping it near to hand. It is not only a useful tool for use with dementia but it
is also life-affirming.” — Nursing Times
“This book can be warmly recommended to caregivers as an upbeat and encouraging
guide to developing those brief moments of successful communication . . . A Loving
Approach to Dementia Care is exactly what it says on the label.” — International
Psychogeriatrics
Laura Wayman holds an associate in arts
degree in gerontology and is a certified
Social Services Designee. She has over a
decade of experience in and a strong dedication to quality aging. She is a professional
dementia care consultant; the CEO of The
Dementia Whisperers; and a sought-after
speaker on dementia and issues of aging.
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Health / Wellness

A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book

The Ear Book
A Complete Guide to Ear Disorders and Health
THOMAS J. BALKANY, MD, FACS, FAAP,
and KEVIN D. BROWN, MD, PHD
Intricately shaped and amazingly sensitive, ears are the organs
of hearing and balance. When something goes wrong with the
ears — whether infection or cancer, eardrum perforation or hearing
loss — our overall well-being is generally disturbed.
In The Ear Book, Drs. Thomas J. Balkany and Kevin D. Brown,
recognized experts on ears and hearing, explain how the anatomy
of the ear facilitates hearing and balance and then examine
the causes, symptoms, and treatment of common problems
of the outer, middle, and inner ear. Their explanations take
the mystery out of hearing aids, the proper care of ears, and
how the pressurized conditions of scuba diving and air travel
affect the ears. And they debunk ear-related myths — from
the notion that exposure to loud noise strengthens the ear to
the idea that tinnitus can be cured with nutrients — and urge
readers to stop using ear candling or Q-tips to get rid of wax.
This invaluable resource includes:
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detailed illustrations of the anatomy of the ear

•

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helpful tables that describe treatment recommendations,
symptoms of various disorders, hearing milestones,
preventive steps to preserve hearing, and more

•
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a glossary of terms

an appendix of commonly used ear medications and an appendix
of resources

The owner’s
manual for ears.

Drs. Balkany and Brown address such common questions as: Can dizziness be
cured? How loud is too loud? Why do my ears ring? Do cochlear implants work for
nerve deafness? What promise do innovations in gene therapy and stem cell therapy
hold for the future? Fully illustrated and including hearing preservation tips and
suggestions for further reading, The Ear Book is sure to be a welcome family guide.

“An excellent book that will be of interest to people with ear problems, doctors who do
not specialize in ear disorders, and medical trainees.” — Gregory T. Whitman, MD,
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, coauthor of Dizziness: Why You Feel Dizzy
and What Will Help You Feel Better

Thomas J. Balkany, MD, FACS, FAAP, is the
Hotchkiss Professor and chairman emeritus
of the Department of Otolaryngology at
the University of Miami Miller School of
Medicine. He is the coeditor of Clinical

Pediatric Otolaryngology. Kevin D. Brown,
MD, PhD, is an associate professor of
otolaryngology/head and neck surgery and
neurosurgery at the University of North
Carolina School of Medicine, where he is
the chief of the Division of Otology
and Neurotology.
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Health / Wellness

A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book

Living with Cancer
A Step-by-Step Guide for Coping Medically
and Emotionally with a Serious Diagnosis
VICKI A. JACKSON, MD, MPH, and DAVID P. RYAN, MD
with MICHELLE D. SEATON
The prospect of entering treatment is overwhelming for anyone facing
a diagnosis of cancer. While patients have access to a vast amount of
medical information online, this advice is often unreliable or confusing.
In Living with Cancer, Drs. Vicki A. Jackson and David P. Ryan have
crafted the first step-by-step guide aimed at helping people with this
life-defining disease grasp what’s happening to them while coping
physically and emotionally with cancer treatment.
An empathetic resource full of relatable patient stories, this book
teaches patients and caregivers how to ask the right questions to
get the best possible care — beginning at the moment of diagnosis.
Drs. Jackson and Ryan explain how to work with a team of doctors
and nurse practitioners to minimize symptoms and side effects while
living as fully as possible in the face of cancer. They relay important
information about understanding prognosis, and they translate what
doctors mean when they describe tests, treatments, and medical
procedures. Finally, they discuss hospice care and answer questions
about continuing treatment and managing the final phase of life.
Included in this essential resource:
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information on diagnosis, pending treatment,
and end-of-life issues

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straightforward answers to tough questions

detailed illustrations to help readers visualize their diagnosis
and treatment

Based on new research and a groundbreaking program in which patients are
treated with palliative care — along with the best cancer care — during the course of
their illness, this honest and caring book provides the right advice to use at the right
time throughout a journey with cancer. It allows a person with cancer to concentrate
on living the best life possible, despite an uncertain future. Patients at every stage will
find Living with Cancer a comprehensive, thoughtful, and accessible guide for
navigating the illness and its treatment.

A comprehensive and
compassionate guide
for patients and families
living with the physical
and emotional effects
of cancer.

“A unique and greatly needed book. Written by experts in the fields who are used to
working together as a team, Living with Cancer covers the breadth and depth of
cancer care for patients and families. Authoritative yet easy to understand, it
combines best evidence with patient examples in a cohesive way that feels like a

Vicki A. Jackson, MD, MPH, is the chief of

conversation with a very skilled, experienced, and compassionate doctor.”

palliative care at Massachusetts General

— Anna Roshal, MD, Washington University School of Medicine
“An excellent book which describes the optimal integration of general oncology and
palliative care for anyone living with cancer across the cancer continuum.”
— Kenneth D. Miller, MD, The Alvin & Lois Lapidus Cancer Institute,
Sinai Hospital, author of Choices in Breast Cancer Treatment: Medical
Specialists and Cancer Survivors Tell You What You Need to Know

Hospital. David P. Ryan, MD, is the chief of
hematology/oncology at Massachusetts
General Hospital. Michelle D. Seaton
is the coauthor of The Way of Boys:

Raising Healthy Boys in a Challenging and
Complex World and The Cardiac Recovery
Handbook: The Complete Guide to Life
after Heart Attack or Heart Surgery.

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Health / Wellness

A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book

Cerebral Palsy
A Complete Guide for Caregiving
third edition

FREEMAN MILLER, MD, STEVEN J. BACHRACH, MD,
and THE CEREBRAL PALSY CENTER AT NEMOURS /
ALFRED I. DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN
When their child has cerebral palsy, parents need answers. They
seek up-to-date advice they can count on to make sure their child
has the best possible health and well-being. For three editions now,
a team of experts associated with the Cerebral Palsy Program at the
Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children have shared vital information
through this authoritative resource for parents, who will turn to it
time and time again as their child grows.

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The new edition is thoroughly revised to incorporate the latest
medical thinking, including advances in diagnosis, treatment, and
terminology. Every chapter includes new content on topics ranging from genetics to pain, temperature control, palliative care, why
growth suppression is sometimes recommended, the Affordable
Care Act, and how to make it easier for siblings to cope. Chapter 8
has been entirely rewritten to better help adolescents prepare for
the transition to adulthood. New classification systems, such as
the gross motor function classification system and the Functional
Mobility System, are described and explained. And a number of
emerging therapies — including marijuana oil, cord blood transfusion, deep brain stimulation, epilepsy surgery, and growing spinal
rods — are explored.
Intended for parents, grandparents, teachers, therapists, and others who care for and about people with cerebral palsy and cerebral
palsy-like conditions, this is an essential and compassionate guide.

World-renowned experts
provide the latest
information for parents
and grandparents caring
for a child who has
cerebral palsy.

•

an illustrated encyclopedia that defines and describes terms, diagnoses, medical
and surgical procedures, and orthopedic and other assistive devices

•

lists of resources and recommended reading, which include a number
of online sources

Praise for previous editions

“Addresses the many complexities and uncertainties related to this diagnosis. At
the same time, it provides the information parents, grandparents, caregivers, and
health professionals need — everything from medical, educational, and psychosocial
implications to wheelchair maintenance and dental care.” — Exceptional Parent
“This book is well structured, easy to read, and gives answers to all questions

Freeman Miller, MD, and Steven J.
Bachrach, MD, are the co-directors of the
Cerebral Palsy Program at the Nemours /
Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in
Wilmington, Delaware. Dr. Miller is an
assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery
at Thomas Jefferson University’s Sidney

related to the management of children and adults with CP.” — European Journal

Kimmel School of Medicine in Philadelphia

of Pediatrics

and an affiliated associate professor of

“A ‘must’ for any family struggling with CP care . . . The wealth of details are
organized logically and parents will find it easy to navigate, making it an item
of choice above others.” — Bookwatch

kinesiology and mechanical engineering at
the University of Delaware. Dr. Bachrach
is a professor of pediatrics at the Sidney
Kimmel School of Medicine and the
medical director at Philadelphia’s HMS
School for Children with Cerebral Palsy.
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Health / Wellness

The Obesity Epidemic
Why Diets and Exercise Don’t Work —
and What Does
ROBYN TOOMATH, MD
In a world where charlatans promise to fix the alarming obesity
epidemic with a silver-bullet diet or trendy new exercise program,
Robyn Toomath, a physician and realist, steps out of the fray to deliver some tough news: it’s not that easy to lose weight. Dispelling
common myths and telling provocative truths about weight gain
— and loss —The Obesity Epidemic is an engaging investigation
into the complicated factors that lead to obesity.
While genes certainly play a part, Toomath argues, more people
are fat than ever before because most of us consume significantly
more calories than we did 30 years ago. But why? The answer,
she asserts, is the commodification of food created by junk food
advertising coupled with urbanization, globalization, and trade
agreements. And while government, advertisers, gyms, and the
weight loss industry keep pushing solutions that science shows do
not work, Toomath outlines what just might make a difference in
terms of helping people truly control their weight.

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Drawing on the latest research and her twenty years of
workingwith overweight patients, Dr. Toomath argues that even
determined people offered appealing incentives typically cannot
lose weight permanently. Dr. Toomath makes it clear that nothing
will change until we make it easy, not all but impossible, for
people to eat healthily. Raising important questions about obesity,
Toomath sidesteps the standard sound bites and puts an end to the
myth of personal responsibility for body size by focusing
on the environment all around us.

“A well-written, scientifically sound, and

Why modern life makes
it almost impossible
for people to lose weight
and keep it off.

Robyn Toomath, MD, is the clinical director
of general medicine at Auckland Hospital,
the former president of the New Zealand
Society for the Study of Diabetes, and the
founder of Fight the Obesity Epidemic.
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Current Affairs / Business & Economics

Days of Slaughter
Inside the Fall of Freddie Mac
and Why It Could Happen Again
SUSAN WHARTON GATES
In September 2008, beset by mounting losses on high-risk
mortgages and mortgage securities, the Federal Home Loan
Mortgage Corporation teetered on the brink of insolvency. Fearing
that confidence in the housing market would collapse completely
if Freddie Mac and its competitor Fannie Mae failed, the US
government made the difficult decision to place the two firms into
conservatorship, taking control away from shareholders. Although
the taxpayer commitment of hundreds of billions was meant to
stabilize the housing finance system, Freddie’s fall at the start
of the financial crisis set off shockwaves around the world.

MARCH 304 pages 6 x 9
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In Days of Slaughter, Susan Wharton Gates, a former 19-year
Freddie Mac employee and vice president of public policy, provides
a vivid eyewitness account of the competing economic and political
forces that led to massive losses for shareholders, investors,
homeowners — and taxpayers. With a keen eye to the policy
landscape, Gates relates the fateful decisions that led to Freddie
Mac’s downfall and desperate rescue. She also examines today’s
worrisome headlines about potential future bailouts, the uneven
housing recovery, and stymied congressional reform efforts.
Throughout the book, Gates argues convincingly that policymakers
will be unable to safely reform the massive housing finance
system that currently rests squarely on taxpayer shoulders without
addressing deeper issues of ideology, moral hazard, and interest
group politics.

The untold story of the
disastrous financial
and ethical unwinding
of Freddie Mac.
The first book to tell the story of Freddie Mac from an insider perspective — while
casting a prophetic eye to the future — this first-hand account of housing policies,
complex financial transactions, and the crazy quilt of federal and state actors involved
in the Great Recession is a must-read. A cautionary tale of failed policies and corporate
mismanagement that compellingly addresses previously unexplored issues of political
ideology, organizational dynamics, and ethics, Days of Slaughter will appeal to readers
everywhere who want a fuller explanation of what went awry in the US housing market.

“A truly excellent book that makes an important contribution to the historical
record of the financial crisis, fleshing out key details of what happened during the
meltdown of the housing finance system, Days of Slaughter is a balanced discussion
of the tensions between Freddie Mac’s two business sides. Gates blends analysis and
anecdotes from her time at Freddie Mac to keep the pages turning.” — Phillip L.
Swagel, University of Maryland, and former Treasury Department Assistant
Secretary for Economic Policy

Susan Wharton Gates, the founder of
the Wharton Policy Group, LLC, teaches
at Virginia Tech’s Center for Public
Administration and Policy and the Pamplin
School of Business. She is also a capstone
advisor for Georgetown University’s
Master of Professional Studies in
Real Estate program.
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Education / Student Success

Dean’s List
Ten Strategies for College Success
second edition

JOHN BADER
All of your hard work in high school has paid off: you have a solid
GPA, numerous extracurricular achievements to your name, and an
acceptance letter from an excellent college. Now what? What can
you expect from the college experience, and how can you get the
most out of it? This book will answer your questions and help you
find real and lasting success in college.
Deans at America’s top institutions — including Harvard,
Princeton, Stanford, Yale, and Columbia — join John Bader to tell
you what you need to know to have a rich and rewarding college
experience. With wisdom, reassurance, and an insider’s perspective, this lively and timely guide will help you develop strategies
such as to:

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focus on learning, not on grades

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build a new relationship with your parents

•

explore your academic choices

•

learn from diversity at home and abroad

•

cope with failure

•

plan boldly for life after college

A complete reworking, this second edition includes information
on managing workloads and faculty relationships, as well as new
material focused on first-generation challenges and international
students. Dean’s List offers a thoughtful, commonsense approach
to higher education that allows students to make the most of their
four years on campus — and beyond.

You’ve gotten into
college. This is the book
you need to succeed.

Praise for the first edition

“Many books will tell you how to get an ‘A’ in class, but this book encourages
you to do more — to explore college life, embrace new challenges, and become
independent.” — Book Bargains and Previews
“Should be recommended to any person who is facing college for the first time or is
working with first-year college students.” — NACADA
“To achieve success in college (and it is not as easy to be successful as simply knowing
the habits) there is nothing better I need to say to you other than just: Get the
book!” — Biz India Magazine
“Focusing mainly on American high-prestige colleges and universities, this book
points to factors that contribute to the success of undergraduate students. Bader, an
undergraduate dean, with the assistance of colleagues from a dozen or more schools,
distills key knowledge.” — International Higher Education

John Bader served Johns Hopkins
University for over a decade as a dean of
Academic Advising and of Undergraduate
Academic Affairs. He is the author of
Taking the Initiative: Leadership Agendas in

Florida Manatees
Biology, Behavior, and Conservation
JOHN E. REYNOLDS III
photographs by WAYNE LYNCH
Manatees, the gentle giants of Florida’s lagoons and coastal habitats,
bring a smile to almost every face that spies one. As manatees dip
and roll through the water, crowds gather to watch them feed on their
favorite food, aquatic vegetation. Sometimes congregating by the hundreds, other times at ease resting or feeding alone, these sea cows
provide anyone interested in nature with hours of tranquil pleasure.

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978-1-4214-2191-9

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Having survived for eons, today’s manatees are under constant
threat because of our rapidly swelling human population. Their habitats
are often devastated by development and pollution. The slow-moving
manatees also live at the mercy of chance, for they occupy waters
filled with fast-moving boats. For manatees, boat propellers are
spinning razor blades, a new form of predator from which they have
no protection. Boat speed limits have been put in place to protect
manatees, but there is a constant push to lift them so that people can
once again zip across manatee habitats. For this reason, manatees are
often a subject of controversies that pit their lives against the rights of
boat owners.
In this book, manatee expert John E. Reynolds and famed photographer Wayne Lynch join forces to reveal the clearest picture of
manatees ever published. Florida Manatees is a song for the manatee, a celebration of the lives of these majestic creatures. Reynolds’
concise, informative text reveals what is known about manatees while
Lynch’s beautiful photographs instantly demonstrate how special these
“potatoes with whiskers” really are. By promoting an appreciation of
manatees, the book hopes to ensure a future in which Floridians will
continue to enjoy the sirenian inhabitants of the state.

Included in this book:
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how manatees first came to Florida waters and how early human settlers
regarded them

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how manatees fit into the ecosystems of Florida

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what and how much manatees eat

•

how manatees behave and communicate with one another

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why manatees look the way they do

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why manatees have whiskers

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how manatee mothers feed their young and much more

A photographic journey
into the secret world
of Florida’s beloved
manatee.

John E. Reynolds III is the senior scientist
at Mote Marine Laboratory’s Manatee
Research Program and the former chair of
the US Marine Mammal Commission. He is
the coeditor of Marine Mammal Research:

Conservation beyond Crisis and the
coauthor of Mysterious Manatees. Wayne
Lynch is a renowned and widely published
professional wild life photographer. He is
the author of Owls of the United States and

Canada: A Complete Guide to Their Biology
and Behavior and the coauthor of Penguins:
The Animal Answer Guide.
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Science / Current Affairs

The Carbon Code
How You Can Become a Climate Change Hero
BRETT FAVARO
Our world is getting hotter, and it’s our fault. Our addiction to fossil
fuels is destroying not only our ancient planet, but our modern civilization. How can we protect our fragile ecosystems while preserving
our way of life? How can we respond to climate change deniers
who mock the fact that environmental activists use fossil fuels? In
short, how can your average concerned citizen live a normal life in a
carbon-based economy without being justifiably called a hypocrite?
In The Carbon Code, conservation biologist Brett Favaro answers
these thorny questions, offering simple strategies to help you reduce your carbon footprint — without abandoning common sense.
Favaro’s Carbon Code of Conduct is based on the four R’s:
Reduce, Replace, Refine, and Rehabilitate. After outlining the
scientific basics of climate change and explaining the logic of the
code he prescribes, the author describes carbon-friendly technologies and behaviors we can adopt in our daily lives. However, he
acknowledges that individual action, while vital, is insufficient.
To achieve global sustainability, he insists that we must make
the fight against climate change “go viral” through conspicuous
conservation.

Save the planet — and
yourself — by joining
the fight against
climate change.
The Carbon Code:
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empowers readers to make carbon friendly changes to their daily habits

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outlines the science of climate change in an approachable style

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helps readers become protagonists in the fight against climate change

The Carbon Code is a tool of empowerment. People don’t need to be climate
change experts to be part of the solution! In this book, Brett Favaro shows
you how to take ownership of your carbon footprint and adopt a lifestyle
of conspicuous conservation that will spur governments and corporations
to do the same. Climate-friendly action is the best decision on every
dimension — economics, health and well-being, and social justice. Saving the
planet is, after all, about saving ourselves. The Carbon Code provides a framework
to do this, and helps you to become a hero in the fight against climate change.

Brett Favaro is a research scientist at
Memorial University of Newfoundland.
He lectures widely on applying scientific
approaches to creating a sustainable
future for the planet.

The Making
of Jane Austen
DEVONEY LOOSER
Just how did Jane Austen become the celebrity author and the
inspiration for generations of loyal fans she is today? Devoney
Looser’s The Making of Jane Austen turns to the people, performances, activism, and images that fostered Austen’s early fame,
laying the groundwork for the beloved author we think we know.
Here are the Austen influencers, including her first English illustrator, the eccentric Ferdinand Pickering, whose sensational gothic
images may be better understood through his brushes with bullying,
bigamy, and an attempted matricide. The daring director-actress
Rosina Filippi shaped Austen’s reputation with her pioneering
dramatizations, leading thousands of young women to ventriloquize
Elizabeth Bennet’s audacious lines before drawing room audiences.
Even the supposedly staid history of Austen scholarship has its
bizarre stories. The author of the first Jane Austen dissertation,
student George Pellew, tragically died young, but he was believed
by many, including his professor-mentor, to have come back from
the dead.

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Looser shows how these figures and their Austen-inspired work
transformed Austen’s reputation, just as she profoundly shaped
theirs. Through them, Looser describes the factors and influences
that radically altered Austen’s evolving image. Drawing from
unexplored material, Looser examines how echoes of that work
reverberate in our explanations of Austen’s literary and cultural
power. Whether you’re a devoted Janeite or simply Jane-curious,
The Making of Jane Austen will have you thinking about how a
literary icon is made, transformed, and handed down from
generation to generation.

An engaging account
of who and what made
Jane Austen a
household name.

“A potential game changer, full of force and
originality. Looser’s refreshingly democratic
approach to Austen scholarship not only will add
to our knowledge of this author’s reception history
and literary afterlife but will surprise even the
most informed Austen scholar.” — Janine Barchas,
author of Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History,
Location, and Celebrity

Devoney Looser is a professor of English
at Arizona State University. She is the
author of Women Writers and Old Age

in Great Britain, 1750 – 1850 and British
Women Writers and the Writing of History,
1670 – 1820.
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Science & Technology / Sports

Game Changer
The Technoscientific Revolution in Sports
RAYVON FOUCHÉ
We like to think of sports as elemental: strong bodies trained to
overcome height, weight, distance; the thrill of earned victory or
the agony of defeat in a contest decided on a level playing field. But
in Game Changer, Rayvon Fouché argues that sports have been
radically shaped by an explosion of scientific and technological
advances in materials, training, nutrition, and medicine dedicated
to making athletes stronger and faster. Technoscience, as Fouché
dubs it, increasingly gives the edge (however slight) to the athlete
with the latest gear, the most advanced training equipment, or
the performance-enhancing drugs that are hardest to detect.
In this revealing book, Fouché examines a variety of sports paraphernalia and enhancements, from fast suits, athletic shoes, and
racing bicycles to basketballs and prosthetic limbs. He also takes a
hard look at gender verification testing, direct drug testing, and the
athlete biological passport in an attempt to understand the evolving
place of technoscience across sport.
In this book, Fouché:
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examines the relationship among sport, science,
and technology

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considers what is at stake in defining sporting culture
by its scientific knowledge and technology

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provides an informative and engagingly written study

Focusing on well-known athletes, including Michael Phelps,
Oscar Pistorius, Caster Semenya, Usain Bolt, and Lance Armstrong,
Fouché argues that technoscience calls into question the integrity
of games, records, and our bodies themselves. He also touches
on attempts by sporting communities to regulate the use of

How has technology
challenged the notion of
unadulterated athletic
performance?
technology, from elite soccer’s initial reluctance to utilize goal-line technology to
automobile racing’s endless tweaking of regulatory formulas in an attempt to blur
engineering potency and reclaim driver skill and ability. Game Changer will change
the way you look at sports — and the outsized impact technoscience has on them.

“A distinctive and important contribution to the histories of sports, bodies, and
technology. Game Changer is a timely book by a proven scholar.” — Carroll Pursell,
author of From Playgrounds to PlayStation: The Interaction of Technology
and Play

“Informative, engaging, and well-written, Game Changer deftly reveals that the
impact of technoscience on sports has never been greater.” — Eric A. Hall, author
of Arthur Ashe: Tennis and Justice in the Civil Rights Era

Rayvon Fouché is the director of American
studies and an associate professor in
the School of Interdisciplinary Studies
at Purdue University. He is the author of

American History Witness to History, Peter Charles Hoffer and Williamjames Hull Hoffer, Series Editors

Selma’s Bloody Sunday
Protest, Voting Rights, and the Struggle
for Racial Equality
ROBERT A. PRATT
On Sunday afternoon, March 7, 1965, roughly six hundred
peaceful demonstrators set out from Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church
in a double-file column to march from Selma, Alabama, to the state
capital of Montgomery. Leading the march were Hosea Williams
of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and John Lewis
of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Upon reaching
Broad Street, the marchers turned left to cross the Edmund Pettus
Bridge that spanned the Alabama River. “When we reached the
crest of the bridge,” recalls John Lewis, “I stopped dead still. So
did Hosea. There, facing us at the bottom of the other side, stood
a sea of blue-helmeted, blue-uniformed Alabama state troopers,
line after line of them, dozens of battle-ready lawmen stretched
from one side of U.S. Highway 80 to the other. Behind them were
several dozen more armed men — Sheriff Clark’s posse — some on
horseback, all wearing khaki clothing, many carrying clubs the size
of baseball bats.”

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The violence and horror that was about to unfold at the foot of
the bridge would forever mark the day as “Bloody Sunday,” one of
the pivotal moments of the civil rights movement. Alabama state
troopers fell on the unarmed protestors as they crossed the bridge,
beating and tear gassing them. In Selma’s Bloody Sunday, Robert A.
Pratt offers a vivid account of that infamous day and the indelible
triumph of black and white protest over white resistance. He
explores how the march itself — and the 1965 Voting Rights
Act that followed — represented a reaffirmation of the nation’s
centuries-old declaration of universal equality and the fulfillment
of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

Selma’s Bloody Sunday offers a fresh
interpretation of the ongoing struggle by
African Americans to participate freely in
America’s electoral democracy. Jumping
forward to the present day, Pratt uses the
march as a lens through which to examine
disturbing recent debates concerning who
should, and who should not, be allowed
to vote. Drawing on archival materials,
secondary sources, and eyewitness accounts of the brave men and women who
marched, this gripping account offers a
brief and nuanced narrative of this critical
phase of the black freedom struggle.

The march from Selma
to Montgomery starkly
illustrated the claims
of the civil rights
movement — and the raw
brutality of the forces
arrayed against it.

“By centering on Selma and the events
surrounding the violent confrontation
on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Robert A.
Pratt offers a fresh look at this historical crossroads which marked the culmination
of the Civil Rights Movement. Brisk and clearly written, this timely and engaging
narrative captures the unfolding drama, key moments, major personalities, internal

of Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement

of The Color of Their Skin: Education and

“Pratt tells a story packed with drama, personal courage, political valor, and
frustration.” — Gregory Mixon, author of The Atlanta Riot: Race, Class, and
Violence in a New South City

Race in Richmond, Virginia, 1954 – 89
and We Shall Not Be Moved: The

Desegregation of the University of Georgia.
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American History / Economic History How Things Worked, Robin Einhorn and Richard R. John, Series Editors
How the contentious
world of nineteenth-century
banking shaped the
United States.

Other People’s Money
How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic
SHARON ANN MURPHY
Pieces of paper that claimed to be good for two dollars upon redemption. Foreign coins
that fluctuated in value from town to town. IOUs passed around by people who could
not know the person who first issued them. Money and banking in antebellum America
offered a glaring example of free-market capitalism run amok — unregulated, exuberant,
and heading pell-mell toward the next “panic” of burst bubbles and hard times.
In Other People’s Money, Sharon Ann Murphy explains how banking and money
worked before the federal government, spurred by the chaos of the Civil War, created
the national system of US paper currency. Murphy traces the evolution of banking in
America from the founding of the nation to Andrew Jackson’s role in the Bank War
of the early 1830s to the problems of financing a large-scale war. She reveals how,
ultimately, the monetary and banking structures that emerged from the Civil War also
provided the basis for our modern financial system
Touching on the significant role that numerous historical figures played in
shaping American banking — including Alexander Hamilton, James Madison,
Benjamin Franklin, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and Louis Brandeis — Other
People’s Money is an engaging guide to the heated political fights that
surrounded banking in early America as well as to the economic causes and
consequences of the financial system that emerged from the turmoil.

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Civil War. Murphy clearly explains the mechanics and politics of banking in early
America.” — Howard Bodenhorn, author of A History of Banking in Antebellum
America: Financial Markets and Economic Development in an Era of Nation-Building
Sharon Ann Murphy is a professor of history at Providence College. She is the author of

Investing in Life: Insurance in Antebellum America.

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Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia
Cathy Matson, Series Editor

The Trouble with Tea
The Politics of Consumption
in the Eighteenth-Century Global Economy

American History / Economic History

How tea’s political meaning shaped
the culture and economy of the
Anglo-American world.

JANE T. MERRITT
Americans imagined tea as central to their revolution. After years of colonial boycotts
against the commodity, the Sons of Liberty kindled the fire of independence when they
dumped tea in the Boston harbor in 1773. To reject tea as a consumer item and symbol
of “taxation without representation” was to reject Great Britain as master of the
American economy and government. But tea played a longer and far more complicated
role in American economic history than the events at Boston suggest.
In The Trouble with Tea, historian Jane T. Merritt explores tea as a central component of eighteenth-century global trade and probes its connections to the politics of
consumption. Arguing that tea caused trouble over the course of the eighteenth century in a number of different ways, Merritt traces the multifaceted impact of that luxury
item on British imperial policy, colonial politics, and the financial structure of merchant
companies.
Concerns about the British political economy, coupled with the corporate machinations of the East India Company, brought an abundance of tea to Britain, causing the
company to target North America as a potential market for surplus tea. American consumers slowly habituated themselves to the beverage, aided by clever marketing and
the availability of Caribbean sugar. Indeed, the “revolution” in consumer activity that
followed came not from a proliferation of goods, but because the meaning of these
goods changed. This fascinating look at the unpredictable path of a single commodity
will change the way readers look at both tea and the emergence of America.

“A surprising and detailed look at how the long-term moral debates over tea overlapped
with and offered a vocabulary for the politicized debates of the Revolutionary War era.”
— Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor, author of The Ties that Buy: Women and Commerce

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in Revolutionary America
Jane T. Merritt is an associate professor of history at Old Dominion University. She is the
author of At the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700 – 1763.
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American History
How did efforts to control
wild animals affect
colonization?

Wild by Nature
North American Animals Confront Colonization
ANDREA L. SMALLEY
From the time Europeans first came to the New World until the closing of the frontier,
the benefits of abundant wild animals appeared as a recurring theme in colonizing
discourses. Explorers, travelers, surveyors, naturalists, and other promoters routinely
advertised the richness of the American faunal environment and speculated about the
ways in which animals could be made to serve their colonial projects. In practice, however, American animals proved far less malleable to colonizers’ designs.
In Wild by Nature, Andrea L. Smalley argues that Anglo-American authorities’
unceasing efforts to convert indigenous beasts into colonized creatures frequently
produced unsettling results that threatened colonizers’ control over the land and the
people. Commodified, harvested, and exterminated, wild animals were active subjects
in the colonial story, altering its outcome in unanticipated ways.
Following a trail of human – animal encounters from the seventeenth-century
Chesapeake to the Civil War – era southern plains, Smalley shows how wild beasts and
their human pursuers repeatedly transgressed the lines lawmakers drew to demarcate
colonial sovereignty and control, confounding attempts to enclose both people and animals inside a legal frame. She also explores how, to possess the land, colonizers had
to find new ways to contain animals without destroying the wildness that made those
creatures valuable to English settler societies in the first place. Offering fresh perspectives on colonial, legal, environmental, and Native American history, Wild by Nature
reenvisions the familiar stories of early America as animal tales.

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“Placing animals at the center of the story of colonization, Wild by Nature is a provocative and persuasive book.” — Ted Steinberg, author of Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in
American History
Andrea L. Smalley is an assistant professor of history at Northern Illinois University.

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American History / Military History

Integrating the US Military
Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation since World War II

How have the US Armed Forces
been transformed
by integration?

edited by DOUGLAS WALTER BRISTOL, JR.,
and HEATHER MARIE STUR
One of the great ironies of American history since World War II is that the military
— typically a conservative institution — has often been at the forefront of civil rights.
Military integration and promotion policies were in many ways more progressive than
similar efforts in the civilian world. Today, the military is one of the best ways for
people from marginalized groups to succeed based solely on job performance.

Integrating the US Military traces the experiences of African Americans, Japanese
Americans, women, and gay men and lesbians in the armed forces since World War
II. By examining controversies from racial integration to the dismantling of “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” to the recent repeal of the ban on women in combat, these essays show
that the military is an important institution in which social change is confirmed and,
occasionally, accelerated.
The first comparative study of legally marginalized groups within the armed services,
Integrating the US Military is a unique look at the history of military integration in
theory and in practice. The book underscores the complicated struggle that accompanied integration and sheds new light on a broad range of comparable issues that affect
civilian society, including affirmative action, marriage laws, and sexual harassment.

“An engaging and broad group of essays by first-rate scholars that emphasizes the major
roles minorities and women played in integrating the military.” — John David Smith,
author of Lincoln and the U.S. Colored Troops
Douglas Walter Bristol, Jr., is an associate professor of history at the University of Southern
Mississippi and a fellow at the Dale Center for the Study of War and Society. He is the

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author of Knights of the Razor: Black Barbers in Slavery and Freedom. Heather Marie Stur is
an associate professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi and a fellow at
the Dale Center. She is the author of Beyond Combat: Women and Gender in the Vietnam

War Era.
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American History / Chesapeake Bay Region

Evergreen
The Garrett Family, Collectors and Connoisseurs
EVERGREEN MUSEUM & LIBRARY
Evergreen — the long-time home of the Garrett family in north
Baltimore — offers a preeminent example of antebellum-American
Italianate architecture. It also houses a remarkably diverse
collection of over 50,000 objects, including paintings, furniture,
sculpture, ceramics, and rare books. Acquired by two generations
of the prominent Garrett family, self-described “collectors by
instinct and by education,” the assemblage of fine and decorative
arts is remarkable in scope and inventiveness. Now part of the
Johns Hopkins University, the mansion endures as a rare visual
encyclopedia, representative of nearly all major architectural
and design movements indicative of America’s transition from
a predominantly agrarian society to a world industrial power.

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This meticulously researched and handsomely illustrated volume
honors the distinct and richly layered collections that characterize Evergreen. The book opens with a history of the philanthropic
family itself, which helped run the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and
develop many of the Monument City’s most important civic and
cultural institutions. Tracing their evolution as collectors and philanthropists, the book charts the family’s artistic tastes and aesthetic
sensibilities from the Gilded Age to the World Wars while also
describing the physical landscape and architecture of Evergreen.
A celebration of one of Baltimore’s grandest nineteenthcentury mansions, Evergreen reveals fascinating life stories through
the richly preserved family archive and the historical context that
remains through Evergreen’s evolving architectural spaces and
growing collections. This volume will appeal to art collectors and
lovers of historic houses, museums, and libraries, as well as readers
fascinated by the intersection of art and architecture, literature and
history, and the history of ideas and collecting.

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A lavishly illustrated guide
to the stunning art, décor,
and library of historic
Evergreen, the home of
Baltimore’s Garrett family.
With contributions by:
James Archer Abbott is Philip Franklin
Wagley Director and Curator of Evergreen
Museum & Library at Johns Hopkins
University. He is the coauthor of Designing

Camelot: The Kennedy White House
Restoration. Earle A. Havens is Nancy H.
Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts
and an adjunct associate professor in the
Department of German and Romance
Languages and Literatures at Johns
Hopkins University. Bodil Ottesen is a
Bakst Theatre, with stage set, Seville Street Scene,
by Léon Bakst (Russian,1866 –1924), 1922, canvas, paint,
and wood. Bequest of Alice Warder Garrett.

lecturer and adjunct faculty member in art
history at several Baltimore institutions,
including the Maryland Institute College
of Art and the Johns Hopkins University

“This book elucidates all aspects of the various collections at Evergreen Museum &

Odyssey Program. Susan G. Tripp is a
former director of the Johns Hopkins

Library, from the largest — the architecture itself and the landscape that surrounds

University Museums, and led the

it — to the fine and decorative arts and the library. This cross-disciplinary

restorations of Homewood Museum and

celebration of the institution makes both a handsome souvenir of a visit and an

How John W. Garrett and the B&O Railroad he headed for
26 years helped transform America by linking the nation.
Chartered in 1827 as the country’s first railroad, the legendary Baltimore and Ohio became
the model for American railroading. John W. Garrett, who served as president of the B&O
from 1858 to 1884, ranked among the great power brokers of the era. In this gripping and
well-researched account, historian Kathleen Waters Sander tells the story of the B&O’s
beginning and its unprecedented plan, considered to be the most ambitious engineering
feat of its time, to build a rail line from Baltimore over the Allegheny Mountains to the
Ohio River.

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Taking the B&O helm during the railroads’ expansive growth in the 1850s, Garrett soon
turned his attention to the demands of the Civil War, becoming one of President Lincoln’s
most trusted confidantes and making the B&O available for transporting Northern troops
and equipment to critical battles. After the war, Garrett became one of the first of the
famed Gilded Age tycoons, rising to unimagined power and wealth.

John W. Garrett and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is a vivid account of Garrett’s twentysix-year reign. Sander brings to life the brazen risk-taking, clashing of oversized egos, and
opulent lifestyles of the tycoons of the Gilded Age. This richly illustrated portrait of one
man’s undaunted efforts to improve the B&O and advance its technology will appeal to
general readers and railroad enthusiasts alike.

“Well-written, engaging, and packed with information, this appealing book explains
complex events clearly.” — Kathryn Allamong Jacob, author of King of the Lobby: The Life
and Times of Sam Ward, Man-About-Washington in the Gilded Age
Kathleen Waters Sander teaches history at the University of Maryland University College.
She is the author of The Business of Charity: The Woman’s Exchange Movement, 1832 – 1900
and Mary Elizabeth Garrett: Society and Philanthropy in the Gilded Age.
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American History

Documentary History of the
First Federal Congress of the
United States of America,
March 4, 1789 – March 3, 1791
CHARLENE BANGS BICKFORD, KENNETH R. BOWLING,
HELEN E. VEIT, and WILLIAM CHARLES DIGIACOMANTONIO, eds.
With the publication of volumes 21 and 22, Johns Hopkins University Press completes
the Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789 – 1791, a comprehensive
edition of the official records and correspondence of this essential congress.
These documents bring the Congress to life, illustrating the often informal political
negotiations of a young nation’s earliest leaders and revealing the world they lived in.
Volume 21 describes the move to Philadelphia’s Congress Hall and includes Third
Session correspondence drafted between Fall 1790 and the close of Congress's
business. Several key and potentially divisive issues — including a national bank, a tax
on domestically produced spirits, and the final location of the permanent seat of the
federal government — occupied the time and attention of Congress during this short
session.

These two volumes complete
the twenty-two volume
documentary history, a
monumental publishing
project that began in 1972.

Praise for previous volumes

“A model documentary edition. Historians
of the early republic owe thanks to the
editors and publisher of this exemplary
collection.” — Journal of the Early

Volume 22 begins with firsthand accounts about Congress that were written after
it adjourned, followed by documents relating to the 1790 Treaty of New York with the
Creek Nation, as well as the experience of FFC incumbents during the second federal
election. The final volume concludes with an extensive editorial apparatus, including

Volume 21
Correspondence: Third Session,
November 1790 – March 1791

the biographical gazetteer and index for the two-volume set.

978-1-4214-1606-9

Charlene Bangs Bickford is the director and coeditor of the Documentary History of the

First Federal Congress, 1789 – 1791. Kenneth R. Bowling is the coeditor of the DHFFC.
Helen E. Veit and William Charles diGiacomantonio are the associate editors of the DHFFC.

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American Studies / American History
Looking at the Far East
and American ambition
in China through the lens
of literature.

The New Middle Kingdom
China and the Early American Romance of Free Trade
KENDALL A. JOHNSON
In the imaginations of early Americans, the Middle Kingdom was the wealthiest empire in the world. Starting in the late eighteenth century, merchants from New York,
Philadelphia, Boston, Salem, Newport, and elsewhere cast speculative lines to China.
The resulting fortunes shaped the cultural foundation of the early republic and funded
westward frontier expansion.
In The New Middle Kingdom, Kendall A. Johnson argues that Manifest Destiny
spurred more than the coalescence of the fractious regions into the continental Far
West. It promised a golden gateway to the Pacific Ocean through which the nation
would realize its historical destiny as the world’s new Middle Kingdom of commerce.
Examining the influential accounts of westerners at the center of early US cultural
development abroad, Johnson conceives a romance of free trade with China as a quest
narrative of national accomplishment in a global marketplace.
Drawing from a richly descriptive cross-cultural archive, the book presents key moments in early relations among the twenty-first century’s superpowers through works
by Melville, Twain, Whitman, and others, as well as through travel narratives, treaties,
and maps. Spanning a full century, from the post – Revolutionary War era to the Gilded
Age, The New Middle Kingdom is a vivid look at the Far East through Western eyes.

“Probing deeply into the US experience in China, The New Middle Kingdom brings a
marginalized story out of the shadows and connects it to broad American themes, issues,
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Treaties, Opium, and Salvation

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Kendall A. Johnson is an associate professor of American studies and the head of the
School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Hong Kong. He is the
author of Henry James and the Visual and the editor of Narratives of Free Trade: The

Pennsylvania Germans
An Interpretive Encyclopedia
edited by SIMON J. BRONNER and JOSHUA R. BROWN
Destined to become the standard reference on Pennsylvania Germans (also known
as the “Pennsylvania Dutch”), this book is the first survey of this extensive American
group in nearly seventy-five years. Nineteen broad interpretive essays written by a
distinguished group of historians, anthropologists, sociologists, linguists, and folklorists
tell the rich and nuanced story of Pennsylvania German history and culture.

This comprehensive
encyclopedia — the first
of its kind — maps out three
hundred years of German
history and culture
in Pennsylvania
and beyond.

United by a distinct (and distinctly American) language, the Pennsylvania Germans
have been slower to assimilate than other ethnic groups. This sweeping volume
reveals, though, that the group is much less homogenous and isolated than was previously thought. From architecture, media, and farming techniques to food, folklore, and
medicine, the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants display a wide range of
cultural variation. In Pennsylvania Germans, editors Simon J. Bronner and Joshua R.
Brown broaden the geographical and social coverage of the group, touching both on
Pennsylvanian communities and the Pennsylvania German diaspora.
Beautifully illustrated, this is the most comprehensive book on the subject to date.

“This book sets new standards for practicing Pennsylvania German studies in our times
and changes the way we think about the Pennsylvania Germans’ impact on North
America.” — Oliver Scheiding, coeditor of A Peculiar Mixture: German-Language
Cultures and Identities in Eighteenth-Century North America
Simon J. Bronner is a Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Folklore and
the director of the Center for Pennsylvania Culture Studies at the Pennsylvania State
University – Harrisburg. He is the author of Explaining Traditions: Folk Behavior in Modern

Culture. Joshua R. Brown is an associate professor of German at the University of
Wisconsin – Eau Claire. He is the coeditor of The Comprehensive Pennsylvania German
Dictionary.

Ancient History Witness to Ancient History, Gregory S. Aldrete, Series Editor
The gripping story of how
the Athenians survived the
Persian invasion of their
homeland—one of the
central events in ancient
Greek history.

Athens Burning
The Persian Invasion of Greece and the Evacuation of Attica
ROBERT GARLAND
Between June 480 and August 479 BC, tens of thousands of Athenians evacuated, following King Xerxes’ victory at the Battle of Thermopylae. Abandoning their homes and
ancestral tombs in the wake of the invading Persian army, they sought refuge abroad.
Women and children were sent to one safe haven, the elderly to another, while all men
of military age were conscripted into the fleet. During this difficult year of exile, the
city of Athens was set on fire not once, but twice. In Athens Burning, Robert Garland
explores the reasons behind the decision to abandon Attica, the peninsular region of
Greece that includes Athens, while analyzing the consequences, both material and
psychological, of the resulting invasion.
Garland introduces readers to the contextual background of the Greco-Persian wars,
which include the famous Battle of Marathon. He describes the various stages of the
invasion from both the Persian and Greek point of view and explores the siege of the
Acropolis, the defeat of the Persians first by the allied Greek navy and later by the army,
and, finally, the return of the Athenians to their land.
This compelling story is especially resonant in a time when the news is filled with the
suffering of nearly 5 million people driven by civil war from their homes in Syria. Aimed
at students and scholars of ancient history, this highly accessible book will also fascinate anyone interested in the burgeoning fields of refugee and diaspora studies.

and deserves the attention of scholars and non-specialists alike.” — John O. Hyland,
Christopher Newport University
Robert Garland is the Roy D. and Margaret B. Wooster Professor of the Classics at Colgate
University. He is the author of Wandering Greeks: The Ancient Greek Diaspora from the

Age of Homer to the Death of Alexander the Great and The Eye of the Beholder: Deformity
and Disability in the Graeco-Roman World.
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History of Science

Reading Galileo
Scribal Technologies and the Two New Sciences

How did early modern
scientists interpret Galileo’s
influential Two New Sciences?

RENÉE RAPHAEL
In 1638, Galileo, over seventy years old, blind, and confined to house arrest outside
of Florence, managed to complete and smuggle to the Netherlands a manuscript that
became his final published work, Two New Sciences, often depicted as the definitive
expression of Galileo’s purportedly modern scientific agenda. In Reading Galileo, Renée
Raphael offers a new interpretation of Two New Sciences, which argues instead that
the work embodied no such coherent canonical vision. Raphael alleges that it was
written — and originally read — as the eclectic product of the types of discursive textual
analysis and meandering descriptive practices Galileo professed to reject in favor of
more qualitative scholarship.
Focusing on annotations period readers left in the margins of extant copies and on
the notes and teaching materials of seventeenth-century university professors whose
lessons were influenced by Galileo’s text, Raphael explores the ways in which a range
of early modern readers responded to Galileo. She highlights the contrast between the
practices of Galileo’s actual readers, who followed more traditional, “bookish” scholarly methods, and their image, constructed by Galileo and later historians, as “modern”
mathematical experimenters.

Two New Sciences has not previously been the subject of such rigorous attention
and analysis. Reading Galileo considerably changes our understanding of Galileo’s
important work while offering a well-executed case study in the reception of an earlymodern scientific classic.

“An innovative, valuable, and brilliantly researched study of the initial reception and
multiple uses of one of the most important books in the history of science.” — Nick Wilding,

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Renée Raphael is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Irvine.

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History of Science and Technology

The History of the London
Water Industry, 1580 – 1820
LESLIE TOMORY

How did pre-industrial London build the biggest water supply
industry on earth?
Beginning in 1580, a number of competing London companies sold water directly
to consumers through a large network of wooden mains in the expanding metropolis.
By the late eighteenth century, more than 80 percent of the city’s houses had
water connections — making London the best-served metropolis in the world while
demonstrating that it was legally, commercially, and technologically possible to run
an infrastructure network within the largest city on earth.

In this richly detailed book, historian Leslie Tomory shows how new technologies
imported from the Continent, including waterwheel-driven piston pumps, spurred the
rapid growth of London’s water industry. The business was further sustained by an
explosion in consumer demand, particularly in the city’s wealthy West End. Meanwhile,
several key local innovations reshaped the industry by enlarging the size of the supply
network. By 1800, the success of London’s water industry made it a model for other
cities in Europe and beyond as they began to build their own water networks.

The History of the London Water Industry, 1580 – 1820 explores the technological,
cultural, and mercantile factors that created and sustained this remarkable industry.
This fascinating and unique study of essential utilities in the early modern period will
interest business historians and historians of science and technology alike.

“A well-researched technological, urban, and social history that takes a holistic approach
to the London water industry.” — Robin Pearson, author of Insuring the Industrial
Revolution: Fire Insurance in Great Britain, 1700 – 1850
Leslie Tomory is a research affiliate at McGill University. He is the author of Progressive
Enlightenment: The Origins of the Gaslight Industry, 1780 – 1820.

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Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology, Merritt Roe Smith, Series Editor

The Draining of the Fens
Projectors, Popular Politics, and State Building
in Early Modern England

History of Science and Technology

How landowners, drainage projectors,
and investors worked with the Crown to
transform England’s waterlogged Fens.

ERIC H. ASH
The draining of the Fens in eastern England was one of the largest engineering
projects in seventeenth-century Europe. A series of Dutch and English “projectors,”
working over several decades and with the full support of the Crown, transformed
hundreds of thousands of acres of putatively barren wetlands into dry, arable farmland.
The drainage project was also designed to reform the sickly, backward fenlanders into
civilized, healthy farmers, to the benefit of the entire commonwealth.
In this definitive account, historian Eric H. Ash provides a detailed history of this
ambitious undertaking. Ash traces the endeavor from the 1570s, when draining the
whole of the Fens became an imaginable goal for the Crown, through several failed
efforts in the early 1600s. The book closes in the 1650s, when, in spite of the project’s
enormous difficulty and expense, the draining of the Great Level of the Fens was
finally completed.
Drawing on painstaking archival research, Ash explores the drainage from the
perspectives of political, social, and environmental history. He argues that the efficient
management and exploitation of fenland natural resources in the rising nation-state of
early modern England was a crucial problem for the Crown, one that provoked violent
confrontations with fenland inhabitants, who viewed the drainage as a grave threat to
their local landscape, economy, and way of life. The drainage also reveals much about
the political flashpoints that roiled England during the mid – seventeenth
century leading up to the violence of the English Civil War.

“Combining environmental history with a history of the relationships of engineering
projects to political power and state-building, The Draining of the Fens deftly
and lucidly crosses disciplinary boundaries.” — Pamela O. Long, author of Artisan/

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Practitioners and the Rise of the New Sciences, 1400 – 1600
Eric H. Ash is an associate professor of history at Wayne State University. He is the author
of Power, Knowledge, and Expertise in Elizabethan England.
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History of Technology Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology, Merritt Roe Smith, Series Editor
Tracing the benefits—and
limitations—of repurposing
aluminum.

Aluminum Upcycled
Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective
CARL A. ZIMRING
Besides being the right thing to do for Mother Earth, recycling can also make money
— particularly when it comes to upcycling, a zero waste practice where discarded
materials are fashioned into goods of greater economic or cultural value. In Aluminum
Upcycled, Carl A. Zimring explores how the metal’s abundance after World War II led
to the industrial production of valuable durable goods from salvaged aluminum.
Beginning in 1886 with the discovery of how to mass produce aluminum, the
book examines the essential part the metal played in early aviation and the world
wars, as well as the troubling expansion of aluminum as a material of mass disposal.
Recognizing that scrap aluminum was as good as virgin material and much more
affordable than newly engineered metal, designers in the postwar era used aluminum
to manufacture highly prized artifacts. Zimring takes us on a tour of post-1940s design,
examining the use of aluminum in cars, trucks, airplanes, furniture, and musical
instruments from 1945 to 2015.
By viewing upcycling through the lens of one material, Zimring deepens our
understanding of the history of recycling in industrial society. He also provides a
historical perspective on contemporary sustainable design practices. Along the
way, he challenges common assumptions about upcycling’s merits and adds a new
dimension to recycling as a form of environmental absolution for the waste-related
sins of the modern world.

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“A refreshingly clear, open, and engaging contribution to the discourse on aluminum, this
deeply researched book is a logical and extremely balanced contribution to the history
of technology and environmental history.” — Samantha MacBride, author of Recycling
Reconsidered: The Present Failure and Future Promise of Environmental Action
in the United States
Carl A. Zimring is an associate professor of sustainablility studies at Pratt Institute. He is
the author of Cash for Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America and Clean and White:

A History of Environmental Racism in the United States.
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History of Science / Religion

Science and Religion
A Historical Introduction

An essential examination
of the historical relationship
between science and religion.

second edition

edited by GARY B. FERNGREN
Since its publication in 2002, Science and Religion has proven to be a widely admired
survey of the complex relationship of Western religious traditions to science from
the beginning of the Christian era to the late twentieth century. In the second edition,
eleven new essays expand the scope and enhance the analysis of this enduringly
popular book.
Tracing the rise of science from its birth in the medieval West through the scientific
revolution, the contributors here assess historical changes in scientific understanding
brought about by transformations in physics, anthropology, and the neurosciences and
major shifts marked by the discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo, Isaac Newton, Charles
Darwin, and others. In seeking to appreciate the intersection of scientific discovery and
the responses of religious groups, contributors also explore the theological implications
of contemporary science and evaluate approaches such as the Bible in science and the
modern synthesis in evolution.
The second edition provides chapters that have been revised to reflect current
scholarship along with new chapters that bring fresh perspectives on a diverse range
of topics, including new scientific approaches and disciplines and non-Christian
traditions such as Judaism, Islam, Asiatic religions, and atheism. This indispensable
classroom guide is now more useful than ever before.

Praise for the previous edition

“Ferngren is to be commended for conveying the vitality and influence of science and
religion through this series of excellent contributions from leading authors in the
field.” — Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith

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Gary B. Ferngren is a professor of history at Oregon State University and a professor of the
history of medicine at First Moscow State Medical University. He is the author of Medicine

and Religion: A Historical Introduction and Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity.
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Education / Current Affairs
In the midst of falling
enrollments and endowments,
university leaders consider
partnering, merging, and
even closing institutions.

Consolidating Colleges
and Merging Universities
New Strategies for Higher Education Leaders
JAMES MARTIN, JAMES E. SAMELS & ASSOCIATES
Since the economic recession of 2008, colleges and universities have looked for ways to
lower costs while increasing incomes. Not all have succeeded. Threatened closures and
recent institutional mergers point to what might be a coming trend in higher education.
In Consolidating Colleges and Merging Universities, James Martin and James E.
Samels bring together higher education leaders to talk about something that few want to
discuss: how institutions might cooperate with their competitors to survive in this economic climate. Barring that, Martin and Samels argue, some will shutter their campuses.
But closing, they emphasize, is a complex process that involves more than just sending
the students home and turning off the lights.
The first one-volume resource for college and university leaders planning to partner,
merge, or close a college or university, the book offers specific guidelines and action
steps used successfully to create multiple forms of partnership between higher education institutions. The book includes contributions by twenty nationally recognized leaders
in partnership and strategic planning, as well as an appendix detailing key college and
university mergers and closures since 2000.

James Martin is a professor of English and humanities at Mount Ida College. James E. Samels
is the CEO and president of The Education Alliance and the founder of Samels & Associates,
a law firm concentrating in higher education law. They are the authors of Turnaround:
Leading Stressed Colleges and Universities to Excellence; The Sustainable University:
Green Goals and New Challenges for Higher Education Leaders; and The Provost’s
Handbook: The Role of the Chief Academic Officer, among other books.

Education / Current Affairs

Universities and Their Cities
Urban Higher Education in America

The first broad survey of
the history of urban higher
education in America.

STEVEN J. DINER
Today, a majority of American college students attend school in cities. But urban
colleges and universities once faced deep hostility from those concerned about the
impact of cities, immigrants, and commuter students on college education. In
Universities and Their Cities, Steven J. Diner explores the roots of American
colleges’ traditional rural bias.
Surveying American higher education from the early nineteenth century to the
present, Diner examines the various ways in which universities responded to the
challenges offered by cities. In the years before World War II, municipal institutions
struggled to “build character” in working class and immigrant students. In the postwar
era, universities in cities grappled with massive expansion in enrollment and the role
of higher education in addressing the “urban crisis.” Over the course of the twentieth
century, urban higher education institutions greatly increased the use of the city for
teaching and research. Moving into the twenty-first century, university location in
urban areas became increasingly popular, altering the long tradition of anti-urbanism
in American higher education.
Drawing on the archives and publications of higher education organizations and
foundations, Universities and Their Cities is a long overdue look at the symbiotic
impact of these two great American institutions: the city and the university.

“A unique and focused book that traces, for the first time, the history of urban universities
over nearly two centuries of American higher education.” — Linda Eisenmann, author of
Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945 – 1965

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as chancellor from 2002 to 2011. The former president of the Coalition of Urban and
Metropolitan Universities, he is the author of A City and Its Universities: Public Policy in

Chicago, 1892 – 1919, and A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era.

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Education / Psychology
Introducing students and
scholars to the emerging field
of critical educational
psychology.

Critical Educational Psychology
STEPHEN VASSALLO
The field of critical studies recognizes that all knowledge is deeply embedded in
ideological, cultural, political, and historical contexts. Although this approach is commonly applied in other subfields of psychology, educational psychology — which is
the study of human learning, thinking, and behavior in formal and informal educational
contexts — has resisted a comprehensive critical appraisal. In Critical Educational
Psychology, Stephen Vassallo seeks to correct this deficit by demonstrating how the
psychology of learning is neither neutral nor value-free but rather bound by a host of
contextual issues and assumptions.
Vassallo invites teachers and teacher educators, educational researchers, and educational psychologists to think broadly about the implications that their use of psychology
has on the teaching and learning process. He applies a wide variety of interdisciplinary
approaches to examine the psychology of learning, cognitive development, motivation,
creativity, discipline, and attention. Drawing on multiple perspectives within psychology
and critical theory, he reveals that contemporary educational psychology is entangled in
and underpinned by specific political, ideological, historical, and cultural contexts.
A valuable resource for anyone who relies on psychology to interact with, assess,
and deliberate over others, especially school-aged children, Critical Educational
Psychology resists neatly packaged theories, models, and perspectives that are
intended to bring some basis and certainty to pedagogical decision-making. This book
will enhance teachers’ ethical decision-making and start important new conversations
about power and opportunity.

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“Stephen Vassallo’s book is written for reflexive classroom teachers wanting to change the
way they educate. A vital contribution to the field of educational psychology.”
— Tim Corcoran, author of Psychology in Education: Critical Theory~Practice
Stephen Vassallo is an associate professor of education at American University. He is the
author of Self-Regulated Learning: An Application of Critical Educational Psychology.

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Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction, John T. Irwin, General Editor

That Swing
Poems, 2008 – 2016

Poetry

The latest rollicking verse
from award-winning poet
X. J. Kennedy.

X. J. KENNEDY
In this, his ninth book of poetry, lyric master X. J. Kennedy regales his readers with
engaging rhythm fittingly signaled by the book’s title, which echoes Duke Ellington’s
jazz classic “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing).” Kennedy’s poems,
infused with verve and surprise, are by turns irresistibly funny and sharply insightful
about life in America.
Some poems are personal recollections of childhood and growing up, as in
“My Mother Consigns to the Flames My Trove of Comic Books.” “Thomas Hardy’s
Obsequies” tells the bizarre true account of the literary giant’s burial. Other poems
portray memorable characters, from Jane Austen (“Jane Austen Drives to Alton in Her
Donkey Trap”) to a giant land tortoise (“Lonesome George”) to a slow-witted man
hired to cook for a nudist colony (“Pudge Wescott”). Kennedy is a storyteller of the
first order, relating tales of travel to far-reaching places. This wise and clever book is
rounded out with adept translations of work by Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé,
Arthur Rimbaud, and others.

Praise for X. J. Kennedy

“These are beautiful poems by one of the best poets we have.” — Sewanee Review
“For over forty years, technical virtuoso X. J. Kennedy has entertained readers with tightly
constructed formal poems in colloquial language. [Kennedy] makes us understand why
our world drives us to song.” — Southern Review
“Mordant, funny, and even sometimes rather frightening; the poet, so much in control
of his formal means, seems himself rather dismayed by the fearful things he points
to.” — Hudson Review

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“Kennedy’s work remains cultured, likable, and witty.” — Publishers Weekly
X. J. Kennedy has written nine collections of poetry, among them In a Prominent Bar in

Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1955 – 2007 and Fits of Concision: Collected Poems
of Six or Fewer Lines.
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS 51

Literary Theory and Criticism
How can humanities scholars
help us respond to growing
concerns about climate change An Anthology
and fossil fuels?

Energy Humanities
edited by IMRE SZEMAN and DOMINIC BOYER

Energy humanities is a field of scholarship that, like medical and digital humanities before it, aims to overcome traditional boundaries between the disciplines and
between academic and applied research. Responding to growing public concern about
anthropogenic climate change and the unsustainability of the fuels we use to power
our modern society, energy humanists highlight the essential contribution that humanistic insights and methods can make to areas of analysis once thought best left to the
natural sciences.
This groundbreaking anthology brings together a carefully curated selection of the
best and most influential work in energy humanities. Arguing that today’s energy and
environmental dilemmas are fundamentally problems of ethics, habits, imagination,
values, institutions, belief, and power — all traditional areas of expertise of the humanities and humanistic social sciences — the essays featured here demonstrate the scale
and complexity of the issues the world faces. They also offer compelling possibilities
for finding our way beyond our current energy dependencies toward a sustainable
future.
Staying true to the diverse work that makes up this emergent field, selections range
from anthropology and geography to philosophy, history, and cultural studies to recent
energy-focused interventions in art and literature.

of energy humanities.” — Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth College
“An excellent anthology that includes some of the best work in the field.” — Jesse Oak
Taylor, University of Washington
Imre Szeman holds the Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies at the University of
Alberta and is the cofounder of the Petrocultures Research Group. Dominic Boyer is a
professor of anthropology at Rice University and the founding director of the Center for
Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences.

Cultivation and Catastrophe
The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature

Literary Theory and Criticism

A transformative
literary history of black
environmental writing.

SONYA POSMENTIER
At the intersection of social and environmental history there has emerged a rich body
of black literary response to natural and agricultural experiences, whether the legacy
of enforced agricultural labor or of the destruction and displacement brought about
by a hurricane. In Cultivation and Catastrophe, Sonya Posmentier uncovers a vivid
diasporic tradition of black environmental writing that responds to the aftermath of
plantation slavery, urbanization, and free and forced migrations, offering an innovative
environmental history of modern black literature.
Posmentier argues that environmental experiences of growth and rupture
define the literature of black freedom, an archive that ranges from sonnets, miniepics, documentary poems, periodicals, and novels to blues songs, dancehall
productions, and ethnographic writing. In turn, this literature generates important
and surprising models for ecological thought. Claude McKay, for example, connects
rows of potatoes to the poetic line; Zora Neale Hurston composes rhythmic
communal lyrics in the Florida “muck” following a deadly hurricane; and Derek
Walcott critiques property-based ecological relations through the archipelagic
shape of his mid-career poetry. Posmentier examines how these writers and
others give voice to racialized experiences of alienation from the land while
simultaneously envisioning a modern poetics of survival, repair, and generation.
Going against the grain of scholarship that has situated modern black diasporic
agency largely in metropolitan sites, Posmentier traces a black literary history of
environmental and social disaster while exploring the possibilities and limits of poetry
as an archive for black modern culture in its many forms.

“Posmentier leaves readers with an expansive sense of the ways that various writers and

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lyricists have analyzed and mounted critiques of the history of violent oppression of black
people.” — Evie Shockley, author of Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal
Innovation in African American Poetry
Sonya Posmentier is an assistant professor of English at New York University.
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European and Comparative Literature

Studies in Eighteenth-Century
Culture
Volume 46

edited by EVE TAVOR BANNET and ROXANN WHEELER

The interplay of violence and
humanity, and of chaos and
order, in different areas of
culture and different nations.

The first section of this volume consists of a panel, “Transnational Quixotes and
Quixotisms,” introduced by Catherine Jaffe. It includes essays by Amelia Dale on how
female quixotes differed from male quixotes in eighteenth-century England; by Elena
Deanda on the Marquis de Sade as a quixotic figure; by Elizabeth Franklin Lewis on
English travelers’ uses of Spanish cartography; and by Aaron R. Hanlon on quixotism as
a global heuristic, with reference to the Pacific as well as the Atlantic.
The second panel in the volume, “The Habsburgs and the Enlightenment,” is
introduced by Rebecca Messbarger. It includes essays by Rita Krueger on conflicts
between Maria Theresa’s view of the Enlightenment and that of her reigning children;
by Julia Doe on Marie Antoinette’s promotion of a new nontraditional kind of opera at
the French court; by R. S. Agin on questions of judicial torture in Austrian Lombardy;
and by Heather Morrison on Habsburg efforts to compete with other empires in botany
as well as diplomacy.
The third section consists of individual essays: Michael B. Guenter on Britain’s subordination of science to imperial goals in the new world; Richard Frohock on the critique of
British imperialism in John Gay’s Polly; Jeffrey Merrick on the French Revolution’s failure to materially alter the legal status of sodomy and suicide; Adam Potkay, comparing
Rousseau and Adam Smith’s views of pity and gratitude; Jeff Loveland, on the methods
used by Diderot to edit the Encyclopédie; and Tamar Mayer, on Jacques-Louis David’s
use of mirror reversibility in the composition of his painting, “Oath of the Horatii.”

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Eve Tavor Bannet is the George Lynn Cross Professor of English at the University of
Oklahoma. Roxann Wheeler is an associate professor of English at The Ohio State University.

American Literature / Literary Theory and Criticism

The Poetry of Weldon Kees
Vanishing as Presence

A study in how a poet’s
corpus is remembered
after he vanishes.

JOHN T. IRWIN
Weldon Kees is one of those fascinating people you’ve likely never heard of. What is
most captivating about Kees is that he disappeared without a trace on July 18, 1955.
Police found his 1954 Plymouth Savoy abandoned on the north side of the Golden Gate
Bridge one day later. The keys were still in the ignition. Though Kees had alluded days
prior to picking up and moving to Mexico, none of his poetry, art, or criticism has since
surfaced either north or south of the Rio Grande.
Kees’s apparent suicide has led critics to compare him to another American
modernist poet who committed suicide two decades earlier — Hart Crane. In
comparison to Crane, Kees is certainly now a more obscure figure. John T. Irwin,
however, is not content to allow Kees to fall out of the twentieth-century literary
canon. In The Poetry of Weldon Kees, Irwin ties together elements of biography and
literary criticism, spurring renewed interest in Kees as both an individual and as a poet.
Irwin acts the part of literary detective, following clues left behind by the poet to
make sense of Kees’s fascination with death, disappearance, and the interpretation
of an artist’s work. Arguing that Kees’s apparent suicide was a carefully-plotted final
aesthetic act, Irwin uses the poet’s death as a lens through which to detect and
interpret the structures, motifs, and images throughout his poems — as the author
intended. The first rigorous literary engagement with Weldon Kees’s poetry, this book
is an astonishing reassessment of one of the twentieth century’s most gifted writers.

“Anchored by a fascinating conceit that illuminates all that follows, The Poetry of Weldon
Kees is both erudite and accessible.” — Robert Niemi, coauthor of The Bibliography

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John T. Irwin is the Decker Professor in the Humanities emeritus at Johns Hopkins
University. His books include F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Fiction: “An Almost Theatrical
Innocence”; Hart Crane’s Poetry: “Appollinaire lived in Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio”;

The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story; and Unless the
Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir.
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS 55

Technical and Business Writing

Public Policy Writing
That Matters
DAVID CHRISINGER

Hone your public policy writing — and make a significant
impact on the world.
Students and professionals across a variety of disciplines need to write public policy
in a manner that inspires action and genuine change. In Public Policy Writing That
Matters, communications specialist David Chrisinger argues that public policy writing
is most persuasive when it tells clear, concrete stories about people doing things.
Combining helpful hints and cautionary tales with writing exercises and excerpts from
sample policy documents, Chrisinger teaches readers to craft concise, story-driven
pieces that exceed the stylistic requirements and limitations of traditional policy
writing.

Chrisinger, who teaches introductory policy writing courses around the country,
offers a step-by-step guide for anyone interested in planning, organizing, developing,
writing, and revising accessible public policy. From the most effective use of data visualization to advice on using facts to strengthen an argument, this little book, inspired
by Strunk & White’s classic style guide, will help anyone crafting public policy to make
a bigger impact.
This practical, concise handbook will not only aid students throughout graduate
school, but will also remain a reference to consult throughout their professional careers. A vital tool for any policy writer or analyst, Public Policy Writing That Matters is
a book for everyone passionate about using writing to effect real and lasting change.
David Chrisinger teaches public policy writing at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg
School of Public Health and works as a communications specialist at the US Government
Accountability Office. He is the editor of See Me for Who I Am: Student Veterans’ Stories

of War and Coming Home.

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Public Health / Psychology

The Johns Hopkins Guide
to Psychological First Aid
GEORGE S. EVERLY, JR. and JEFFREY M. LATING

Learn the essential skills of
psychological first aid from
the expert who created the
Johns Hopkins RAPID PFA
method.

Psychological first aid, or PFA, is designed to mitigate the effects of acute stress and
trauma and assist those in crisis to cope effectively with adversity. PFA is designed to
be applied in emergencies, including disasters and terrorist attacks. In this essential
guide, George S. Everly, Jr. and Jeffrey M. Lating describe the principles and practices
underpinning this psychological model in an easy-to-follow, prescriptive, and practical
manner.
Aimed at mental health practitioners, all first responders, and global health disaster
teams such as Médecins Sans Frontières and the World Health Organization, The
Johns Hopkins Guide to Psychological First Aid is the first book to thoroughly explain
RAPID PFA. RAPID, a unique theoretically grounded and evidence-based PFA method,
follows a set of easily understood principles.
In addition to their counseling experience in Kuwait after the Gulf War and in New
York City after the September 11 attacks, the authors have traveled nationally and
internationally to teach the RAPID PFA method in numerous public health, fire, police,
military, and faith-based settings. This book is an essential tool for people who want to
learn, to practice, or to retain their ability to use psychological first aid effectively.

“There is nothing else in the crisis intervention/psychological first aid field that offers
such content. This important, unique, and innovative book will be a huge contribution
to the discipline.” — Jeffrey T. Mitchell, PhD, CTS, CCISM, Emergency Health Services,
University of Maryland Baltimore County, coauthor of Emergency Response to Crisis
George S. Everly, Jr. is an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, an adjunct professor of international health at the

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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a professor of psychology at Loyola
University Maryland. Jeffrey M. Lating is a professor of psychology at Loyola University
Maryland.
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Public Health / Current Affairs
What can surgeons do
when patients arrive at
the hospital in need of
emergency care—and
showing telling symptoms
of Ebola?

Operation Health, Adam L. Kushner, MD, MPH, FACS, Series Editor

Operation Ebola
Surgical Care during the West African Outbreak
edited by SHERRY M. WREN, MD, FACS, FCS(ECSA),
and ADAM L. KUSHNER, MD, MPH, FACS
foreword by David B. Hoyt, MD, FACS
One of the horrors of the West African Ebola outbreak was the decimation of the
area’s already thin ranks of surgeons. As Ebola spread, health facilities closed, and
some doctors — afraid of catching the disease — left the region or stopped performing
surgery. Many of those who stayed contracted Ebola and died. As the pool of doctors
available — and willing — to perform surgery dwindled, treatable conditions unrelated to
the disease went untreated with devastating results.
Drs. Sherry M. Wren and Adam L. Kushner both worked extensively with surgeons
in Ebola-ravaged countries during the 2014 outbreak. Recognizing that there was no
guidance available for how to perform surgery under such dangerous conditions, Wren
and Kushner collaborated to create official guidelines for safe surgical procedures in
cases of confirmed or suspected Ebola. Operation Ebola documents these procedures
and describes in vivid detail the conditions faced by practicing surgeons.
Bringing together a group of medical experts from Sierra Leone and across the globe
to tell their stories and offer hard-learned lessons, this book is a riveting first-hand
account of performing surgery in under-resourced parts of the world.

“A compelling examination of the challenges related to providing surgical care in the midst
of the Ebola epidemic, Operation Ebola is the first book of its kind. It will appeal to
anyone interested in or faced with the disease.” — William Morris Boggs, MD
MARCH 120 pages 6 x 9 16 halftones
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Sherry M. Wren, MD, FACS, FCS(ECSA), is a professor of surgery at Stanford University
School of Medicine, where she is the director of global surgery for the Center for Innovation
in Global Health. Adam L. Kushner, MD, MPH, FACS, is an associate in the Department of
International Health and a faculty member in the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response
at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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Operation Health, Adam L. Kushner, MD, MPH, FACS, Series Editor

Operation Crisis
Surgical Care in the Developing World during Conflict and Disaster
edited by ADAM L. KUSHNER, MD, MPH, FACS

Public Health / Current Affairs

How can medical workers
provide effective surgical
care in the midst of war
or natural disaster?

Surgical care is increasingly recognized as a critical component of global health,
and strong surgical skills, teamwork, and poise under pressure become even
more imperative during conflict or disaster. When faced with hospital bombings or
devastating earthquakes, healthcare personnel must develop special techniques and
abilities to ably care for patients despite limited resources and a disrupted health
system. In Operation Crisis, Dr. Adam L. Kushner brings together 22 medical experts
from around the world to recount their experiences in the field when disaster struck.
These candid firsthand accounts from both local and international aid surgeons provide
clinicians and public health practitioners with insightful lessons for effectively treating
surgical patients under the most grueling of circumstances.
Moving from conflict settings that include war zones in Afghanistan, the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, Syria, and South Sudan, Operation Crisis also touches on postearthquake Haiti and Nepal and post-tsunami Indonesia. Individual themed chapters
cover mass casualty training, burn care, obstetric care, sexual violence, and landmine
injuries. Combining personal stories with lessons learned and possible interventions,
these vivid and affecting essays detail the immediate aftermath of conflict and disaster
while pointing the way to improving care for future victims of crisis.
Intended to spark further discussion and function as an advocacy tool while
highlighting situations where surgical care can save lives and reduce disability, this
book is a valuable resource for medical professionals, students, policy makers,
international aid organizations, and philanthropic donors.

“An original collection of stories about global surgery and disaster medicine, Operation
Crisis is written in the spirit of public health.” — Rochelle Ami Dicker, MD, University

of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Adam L. Kushner, MD, MPH, FACS, is an associate in the Department of International Health
and a faculty member in the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response at the Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Public Health / History
The most comprehensive
book to date on the history
of silicosis and the strategies
used to combat it.

Silicosis
A World History
edited by PAUL-ANDRE ROSENTAL
Despite the common perception that “black lung” has been relegated to the dustbin
of history, silicosis remains a crucial public health problem that threatens millions of
people around the world. This painful and incurable chronic disease, still present in old
industrial regions, is now expanding rapidly in emerging economies around the globe.
In Silicosis, eleven experts argue that this disease is more than one of the most
pressing global health concerns today — it is an epidemic in the making. Essays explain
how the understanding of the disease has been shaken by new medical findings and
technologies, developments in industrializing countries, and the spread of the disease
to a wide range of professions beyond coal mining. Examining the global reactions to
silicosis, the authors trace the history of the disease and show how this occupational
health hazard first came to be recognized as well as the steps that were necessary to
deal with it at that time.
Adopting a global perspective, Silicosis offers comparative insights into a variety
of different medical and political strategies to combat silicosis. It also analyzes the
importance of transnational processes which have been central to the history of
silicosis since the early twentieth century. Ultimately, by bringing together historians
and physicians from around the world, Silicosis pioneers a new collective method of
writing the global history of disease.

“Bringing together a cross-disciplinary, international group of scholars to address the
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topic of silica-caused lung disease from a varied set of perspectives, Silicosis cogently
and convincingly argues that the International Silicosis Conference of 1930 played a
pivotal role in the history of this disease.” — Paul Blanc, MSPH, MD, University
of California School of Medicine San Francisco
Paul-André Rosental is a professor of contemporary history at Sciences Po and a fellow
scholar at the Institut National d’Études Démographiques. He is the author of Destins de

Living in Death’s Shadow
Family Experiences of Terminal Care and Irreplaceable Loss

Challenging assumptions
about caregiving for those
dying of chronic illness.

EMILY K. ABEL
What is it like to live with — and love — someone whose death, while delayed, is
nevertheless foretold? In Living in Death’s Shadow, Emily K. Abel, an expert on the
history of death and dying, examines memoirs written between 1965 and 2014 by family
members of people who died from chronic disease. Illuminating the excruciatingly painful
experience of coping with a family member’s extended fatal illness, Abel analyzes the
political, personal, cultural, and medical dimensions of these struggles.
The book focuses on three significant developments that transformed the experiences of those dying and their intimates: the passage of Medicare and Medicaid; the
growing use of high-tech treatments at the end of life; and the rise of a movement to
humanize the care of dying people. It questions the exalted value placed on acceptance of mortality as well as the notion that it is always better to die at home than in an
institution. Ultimately, Living in Death’s Shadow emphasizes the need to shift attention
from the drama of death to the entire course of a serious chronic disease.
The chapters follow a common narrative of life-threatening disease: learning the diagnosis; deciding whether to enroll in a clinical trial; acknowledging or struggling against
the limits of medicine; receiving care at home and in a hospital or nursing home; and
obtaining palliative and hospice care. Living in Death’s Shadow is essential reading for
everyone seeking to understand what it means to live with someone suffering from a
chronic, fatal condition, including cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer’s, and heart disease.

“An incredibly insightful and important book that will remind a wide range of readers
that dying is a long, emotional process for many families.”— Patricia D’Antonio, PhD, RN,
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, author of American Nursing:
A History of Knowledge, Authority, and the Meaning of Work

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Emily K. Abel is professor emerita at the UCLA – Fielding School of Public Health. She is
the author of many books, including Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin,

1850 – 1940 and The Inevitable Hour: A History of Caring for Dying People in America.

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Life Science / Biology

The Skeleton Revealed
An Illustrated Tour of the Vertebrates
STEVE HUSKEY
The vertebrate skeleton is one of nature’s most amazing feats. Composed
of cartilage and bone, it forms the supportive structure for the remaining
aspects of our anatomy. Stripped of skin, we can see the body’s fascinating
underlying architecture.
In this one-of-a-kind book, biologist and skeletal reconstructionist Steve
Huskey lays bare the vertebrate skeleton, providing a guided tour of the nuanced differences among the many featured vertebrate species. Using his
own skeletal preparations, which the author has spent decades assembling,
Huskey helps us understand why animals live the way they do. We see in
the venomous snake the jaw and fang structures that allow it to both kill
and consume its prey whole. The eastern mole is shown to be built like a
weightlifter coupled with an earth-mover, as Huskey discusses its habit of
“swimming through soil.” The odd-looking trumpetfish is not built for music
but for suction, with a skull that expands to vacuum in its prey.

FEBRUARY 360 pages 8 x 10 189 b&w photos
978-1-4214-2148-3

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The pages of The Skeleton Revealed illuminate not only the
elegance of each skeleton, but also the natural history story the
skeleton tells. Come along — let’s take a voyage through the boneyard.

“Steve Huskey feeds our fascination with the vast diversity of animals
through beautiful photographs of skeletons he meticulously prepared.
Accompanied by informative and up-to-date descriptions of the animals
and their lives, this book reveals the remarkable evolutionary variety in
animal body plans.” — George V. Lauder, Harvard University
“In these pages, the vertebrate skeleton becomes an inspiration. Skeletons
are sources of beauty, wonder, and knowledge about the natural world.
Here, we see and learn about them in their full glory.” — Neil Shubin,
author of Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History
of the Human Body

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“I have admired Steve Huskey’s
magnificent skeletal preparations
for fifteen years. To now see them
assembled in a book is a rare treat.
It is the best book on the vertebrate
skeleton I have encountered in a
long while.” — Adam Summers,
Friday Harbor Laboratories,
University of Washington

Steve Huskey is an associate professor of
biology at Western Kentucky University.
Dr. Huskey’s skeletons are on display
in many venues, including the Harvard
Museum of Natural History, the California
Academy of Sciences, and the Miami
Museum of Science and Planetarium.
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Life Science / Biology

The Snake and the Salamander

A beautifully illustrated tour
of the region’s snakes, lizards,
turtles, frogs, and salamanders. Reptiles and Amphibians from Maine to Virginia
text by ALVIN R. BREISCH
illustrations by MATT PATTERSON

The Snake
and the
Salamander

Reptiles and Amphibians
from Maine to Virginia

Text by Alvin R. Breisch
Illustrations by Matt Patterson

MARCH 232 pages 8 x 10 93 color illus.
978-1-4214-2157-5

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In the best tradition of natural history writing and art, The Snake and the Salamander
explores the diverse collection of reptiles and amphibians that inhabit the northeastern
quadrant of the United States. Covering 13 states that run from Maine to Virginia, author
Alvin R. Breisch and artist Matt Patterson showcase the lives of 83 species of snakes,
lizards, turtles, frogs, and salamanders. These intriguing animals are organized by habitat
and type, from forest to grassland to bogs to big waters, and revealed through a combination of Breisch’s engaging prose and Patterson’s original color illustrations.
Breisch’s guided tour combines historical notes and conservation issues with
lessons on genetics, evolution, habitats, life histories, and more. Discover how careful attention to frog calls coupled with DNA analysis led to the discovery of a new
species of frog in New York City, why evolutionary adaptations made the Eastern
Ratsnake a superb climber, and the surprising fact that Spiny Softshell turtles actually
sprint on land to retreat from predators. Every species has a story to tell — one that
will keep the reader wanting to learn more.
The breadth of herpetofauna in the area will surprise many readers: more than 8%
of the world’s salamanders and 11% of all turtle species live in the region. Beyond
numbers, however, lie aesthetics. The surprising colors and fascinating lifestyles of
the reptile and amphibian species in this book will mesmerize readers young and old.
Alvin R. Breisch, a collaborator with the Roosevelt Wild Life Station, was the amphibian
and reptile specialist and the director of the Amphibian and Reptile Atlas Project for the
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation until his retirement in 2009.
Matt Patterson is the illustrator of Freshwater Fish of the Northeast, which won the 2010
National Outdoor Book Award in the category of Design and Artistic Merit.

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Life Science / Biology

Beaked Whales
A Complete Guide to Their Biology and Conservation
RICHARD ELLIS and JAMES G. MEAD

The only book dedicated to the mysterious beaked whale,
this beautiful volume combines full-color illustrations
with fascinating facts.
Beaked whales have been shrouded in mystery for most of the twentieth century,
with only a few species known to science. Over the past several decades, however,
scientists have gained a better understanding of this distinct group of cetaceans. Here,
famed artist and naturalist Richard Ellis and leading beaked whale researcher James G.
Mead bring twenty-two species of these unknown marine mammals into the limelight.
Beaked whales are long-lived cetaceans, with some living well past 70 years. They
dive to great depths in search of squid and fish, which they capture by expanding
their oral cavity suddenly, causing a drop in pressure that sucks in their prey. Because
many species are only somewhat larger than dolphins, they are often confused with
porpoises, although some larger beaked whale species may grow to 40 feet.
In Ellis and Mead’s book, the beaked whales finally get their due. The duo provides a
combination of fascinating stories about the species, original Richard Ellis art, and photos from leading natural history photographers. The result is an accessible, beautiful
book — the first of its kind on this unusual group of whales. Meet the beaked whales,
and enjoy the fascinating and mysterious world in which they live.

Richard Ellis is a naturalist and world-renowned marine painter. He is the author of numerous books, including Monsters of the Sea: The History, Natural History, and Mythology of

the Oceans’ Most Fantastic Creatures and The Great Sperm Whale: A Natural History of
the Ocean’s Most Magnificent and Mysterious Creature. James G. Mead is curator emeritus
of marine mammals at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History.
He is considered the world expert on beaked whales.

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Life Science / Biology

North Atlantic
Right Whales
From Hunted Leviathan to Conservation Icon
DAVID W. LAIST
In the cold waters of the unforgiving North Atlantic Ocean, some
of the heartiest humans of medieval days ventured out in search of
whales. As the desire for whales grew through the centuries, people
on both sides of the North Atlantic became increasingly dependent
on whale oil and other cetacean products. Eventually, whaling grew
ever more sophisticated, evolving into fleets of skilled huntsmen and
leading to the collapse of what was once a seemingly inexhaustible
supply of large cetaceans. Central in this struggle for existence was
one species, the North Atlantic right whale. David W. Laist, a major
player in right whale conservation, now provides the first complete
history of the North Atlantic right whale, from its earliest encounters
with humans to its close brush with extinction to its present precarious, yet hopeful, status as a conservation icon.

Favored by whalers because of its high yields of oil and superior
quality baleen, these giants became known as “the right whale
to hunt,” and their numbers dwindled to a mere 100 individuals.
Salvation of a sort came in the 1930s, when their dire status encouraged the adoption of a ban on hunting and a treaty that formed the
International Whaling Commission. Recovery, however, has proven
elusive. Ship-strikes and entanglement in commercial fishing gear
have hampered herculean efforts to restore the stocks. Today, a total of about 500 right whales live along the US and Canadian Atlantic
coasts — a great improvement from the early twentieth century, but
a far cry from the thousands and thousands that once crisscrossed
the oceans.

The fascinating story of North Atlantic right
whales—from their evolutionary origin, through
a thousand-year history of relentless pursuit by
whalers, to ongoing efforts to rescue them from the
brink of extinction.
Laist’s masterpiece is sprinkled with an incredible collection
of photographs and artwork. The result is a single volume
that offers a comprehensive understanding of North Atlantic
right whales, the many cultures that hunted them, and the
modern — sometimes frustrating — attempts to help them
recover. This book is sure to appeal to readers interested
in both whales and whaling.

“David Laist’s fascinating book about North Atlantic right
whales takes us from the early days of whaling to current
conservation issues. Thoroughly researched and extremely
well-written, his book will appeal equally to academics,
conservationists, and whale-watchers.” — James G. Mead,
Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals, Smithsonian
Institution
Above: French Whalers Off Devil's Thumb, Jan Mayen Island. This
is the earliest known painting of a French whaling scene, done in the
style of Peter Goos (1616 – 1675) of Amsterdam. Anonymous artist.
Courtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum

Scientist David W. Laist is a senior policy
and program analyst for the US Marine
Mammal Commission.

A remarkable achievement that took over 30 years to construct, Keys for Identifying
Mexican Mammals is the only complete identification guide to Mexico’s mammalian
fauna. This unique book follows a bilingual arrangement, with identical information
presented in Spanish and English on facing pages. The dichotomous presentation
is both easy to follow and flawlessly compiled. Hundreds of diagnostic images are
dispersed throughout the book, many showing minute details that differentiate one
species from another, and introductory materials carefully explain the use of diagnostic
features. The heart of the book, though, is the keys themselves, which cover every
taxa — from artiodactyls and carnivores to primates and rodents — while allowing
confident identification at the species level for both field and museum use.
The book closes with appendices that cover preparation of specimens, a glossary,
and a bibliography. Anyone with an interest in the mammalian fauna of Mexico, or
mammals in general, will find this one-of-a-kind book an indispensable reference to
Mexico’s rich diversity of wildlife.
Sergio Ticul Álvarez-Castañeda is a senior researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones
Biológicas del Noroeste, where he is the curator of the Mammals Collection. He is the
coauthor of Mamíferos del Noroeste Mexicano. Ticul Álvarez (1935 – 2001) was a senior
professor at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional and the curator of the Mammals Collection
of the Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas. He was the coauthor of Diccionario de

Anatomía Comparada de Vertebrados. Noe González-Ruíz is a senior professor at the
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, where he is the associate curator of the
Mammals Collection.
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Life Science / Biology

Stream Fish
Community Dynamics

The most comprehensive
synthesis of stream fish
community research ever
produced.

A Critical Synthesis
WILLIAM J. MATTHEWS and EDIE MARSH-MATTHEWS
In this groundbreaking book, leading fish ecologists William Matthews and Edie
Marsh-Matthews apply long-term studies of stream fish communities to several
long-standing questions. This critical synthesis reaches to the heart of ecological
theory, testing concepts against the four decades of data the authors have collected
from numerous warm-water stream fish communities in the central and eastern
United States.

Stream Fish Community Dynamics draws together the work of a single research
team to provide fresh analyses of the short- and long-term dynamics of numerous
streams. Conducting repeated surveys of fish communities, the authors’ research findings will fascinate anyone searching for a deeper understanding of community ecology.
The book includes:
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a comparison of all global and local communities with respect to emergent
community properties and community composition at the species and family level
analyses of traits of individual species that are important to their distribution
or success in harsh environments

a review of evidence for the importance of interactions in community dynamics
of stream fishes

•

an assessment of disturbance effects in fish community dynamics

new analysis of the short- and long-term dynamics of variation in stream fish
communities

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new analyses and comparisons of spatiotemporal variation in community dynamics
and beta diversity partitioning

William J. Matthews is professor emeritus of biology at the University of Oklahoma.
Edie Marsh-Matthews is professor emeritus of biology at the University of Oklahoma.
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Life Science / Biology

Insects
Evolutionary Success, Unrivaled Diversity,
and World Domination
DAVID B. RIVERS
Too often, David B. Rivers argues, entomology is taught using a dry
taxonomic approach that the average biology major finds both dull
and painful. Students should, Rivers believes, become fascinated
with insects by the end of a course that examines more than 75% of
all animal diversity on Earth — around two quintillion individual insects.
With refreshing energy, Insects tells the gripping story of how and why
this six-legged life form has been so remarkably successful
— and is poised to take over the world.
Designed as an introduction to the intriguing world of insect biology,
this book examines familiar entomological topics in nontraditional ways
by placing an emphasis on student engagement through references to
popular culture. Several chapters provide in-depth coverage of topics
that are not typical for entomology textbooks, including the impact of
insects on the human condition, why insects are phat but not fat, the
sex lives of insects, forensic entomology, and the threats that some
insects pose to humans.
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An introduction to the
intriguing world of
insects, from bullet ants
to butterflies.
Each chapter presents clear and concise key concepts, chapter reviews, review
questions following Bloom’s taxonomy of learning, web links to videos and other resources, and breakout boxes (called Fly Spots) to capture student interest with unique
and entertaining topics related to entomology. Focusing on both traditional and nontraditional aspects of insect biology and packed with extensive learning resources, Insects
covers a wide range of topics suitable for life science majors as well as non-science
students, including:
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the positive and negative influences of insects on everyday human life

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insect abundance

•

insect classification (here presented in the context of social media)

•

insect feeding, communication, defense, and sex

•

how insects are responding to climate change

•

forensic entomology

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how insects can be used as weapons of war

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how insects relate to national security

•

why insects have wings

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how to read pesticide labels

•

why beetles would have caused Noah many troubles

David B. Rivers is a professor of biology and
the director of forensic studies at Loyola
University Maryland. He is the coauthor of
The Science of Forensic Entomology.

Mathematics
A new approach to teaching
calculus that uses historical
examples and draws on
applications from science
and engineering.

Calculus in Context
Background, Basics, and Applications
ALEXANDER J. HAHN
Breaking the mold of existing calculus textbooks, Calculus in Context draws students
into the subject in two new ways. Part I develops the mathematical preliminaries within
the historical frame of the ancient Greeks and the heliocentric revolution in astronomy.
Part II starts with comprehensive and modern treatments of the fundamentals of
both differential and integral calculus, then turns to a broad discussion of applications.
Students will learn that core ideas of calculus are central to concepts such as acceleration, force, momentum, torque, inertia, and the properties of lenses.
Classroom-tested at Notre Dame University, this textbook is suitable for students of
wide-ranging backgrounds because it engages its subject at several levels and offers
ample and flexible problem set options for instructors. Topics covered in the book
include:
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the basics of geometry, trigonometry, algebra, and coordinate geometry and the
historical, scientific agenda that drove their development

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a brief, introductory calculus from the works of Newton and Leibniz

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a modern development of the essentials of differential and integral calculus

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applications with surrounding contexts to the analysis of the suspension bridge;
the lenses and mirrors of modern telescopes; the architecture of important
domes; the geometry of the pseudosphere; the free fall of objects in resistant
media; the dynamics of a bullet in the barrel of a gun; and the motion of a planet
in its orbit

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Calculus in Context is a compelling exploration — from the point of view of both
students and instructors — of a discipline that is both rich in conceptual beauty and
broad in its applied relevance.
Alexander J. Hahn is a professor of mathematics at the University of Notre Dame. He
is the author of Basic Calculus: From Archimedes to Newton to Its Role in Science and

Mathematical Excursions to the World’s Great Buildings.

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Physics

Emmy Noether’s
Wonderful Theorem
revised and updated edition

One of the most important—
and beautiful—mathematical
solutions ever devised,
Noether’s theorem touches
on every aspect of physics.

DWIGHT E. NEUENSCHWANDER
"In the judgement of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was
the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher
education of women began." — Albert Einstein
The year was 1915, and the young mathematician Emmy Noether had just settled
into Göttingen University when Albert Einstein visited to lecture on his nearly finished
general theory of relativity. Two leading mathematicians of the day dug into the new
theory with gusto, but had difficulty reconciling it with what was known about the
conservation of energy. Knowing of her expertise in invariance theory, they requested
Noether’s help. To solve the problem, she developed a novel theorem, applicable
across all of physics, which relates conservation laws to continuous symmetries — one
of the most important pieces of mathematical reasoning ever developed.
In Dwight E. Neuenschwander’s new edition of Emmy Noether’s Wonderful
Theorem, readers will encounter an updated explanation of Noether’s “first” theorem.
The discussion of local gauge invariance has been expanded into a detailed presentation of the motivation, proof, and applications of the “second” theorem. Other
refinements in the new edition include an enlarged biography of Emmy Noether’s life
and work, parallels drawn between the present approach and Noether’s original 1918
paper, and a summary of the logic behind Noether’s theorem.

Praise for the first edition

“A very readable and concrete introduction to symmetry and invariance in physics with

Dwight E. Neuenschwander is a professor of physics at Southern Nazarene University. He
is a columnist for the Observer, the magazine of the Society for Physics Students, and the
author of Tensor Calculus for Physics: A Concise Guide.

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International Relations The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
Despite momentous change,
NATO remains a crucial
safeguard of security
and peace.

How NATO Adapts
Strategy and Organization in the Atlantic Alliance since 1950
SETH A. JOHNSTON
Today’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with nearly thirty members and a global
reach, differs strikingly from the alliance of twelve created in 1949 to “keep the
Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down.” These differences are not
simply the result of the Cold War’s end, 9/11, or recent twenty-first-century developments but represent a more general pattern of adaptability first seen in the incorporation
of Germany as a full member of the alliance in the early 1950s. Unlike other enduring
post – World War II institutions that continue to reflect the international politics of their
founding era, NATO stands out for the boldness and frequency of its transformations
over the past seventy years.
Seth A. Johnston presents readers with a detailed examination of how NATO adapts.
Nearly every aspect of NATO is profoundly different than at the organization’s founding. Using a theoretical framework of “critical junctures” to explain changes in NATO’s
organization and strategy throughout its history, Johnston argues that the alliance’s own
bureaucratic actors played important and often overlooked roles in these adaptations.
Touching on renewed confrontation between Russia and the West, as well as a quarter century of post – Cold War rapprochement and more than a decade of expeditionary
effort in Afghanistan, How NATO Adapts explores how crises from Ukraine to Syria
have again made NATO’s capacity for adaptation a defining aspect of European and
international security.

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“Johnston provides well-researched insight into the inflection points of NATO’s timeline
by illuminating personalities, quotations, and political crossroads.” — Sarwar A. Kashmeri,
author of NATO 2.0: Reboot or Delete?
Seth A. Johnston is a major in the United States Army and recent assistant professor of
international relations at West Point. He holds a doctorate from Oxford University and is a
veteran of NATO missions in Europe and Afghanistan.

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American Government

What American Government
Does

Government does much more
than you may think.

STAN LUGER AND BRIAN WADDELL
It has become all too easy to disparage the role of the US government today. But
government has improved the lives of Americans in numerous ways, from providing income, food, education, housing, and healthcare support, to ensuring cleaner air, water,
and food, to providing a vast infrastructure upon which economic growth depends.
In What American Government Does, Stan Luger and Brian Waddell offer a practical understanding of the scope and function of American governance. They present a
historical overview of the development of US governance that is rooted in the theoretical work of Charles Tilly, Karl Polanyi, and Michael Mann. Touching on everything from
taxes, welfare, and national and domestic security to the government’s regulatory,
developmental, and global responsibilities, each chapter covers a main function of
American government and explains how it emerged and then evolved over time. Luger
and Waddell are careful to both identify the controversies related to what government
does and those areas of government that should elicit concern and vigilance.

What American Government Does represents a major contribution to the scholarly
debate on the nature of the American state and the exercise of power in America.

“A rounded, empirically based, and theoretically framed analysis of the multiple dimensions of US government policy.” — Sidney Plotkin, coauthor of Private Interests, Public

8

Spending: Balanced-Budget Conservatism and the Fiscal Crisis
“An original and scholarly contribution to the field of American politics, What American
Government Does takes a sophisticated approach to big questions.” — Frances Fox Piven,
author of Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America

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Stan Luger is a professor and the chair of the Department of Political Science and
International Affairs at the University of Northern Colorado. Brian Waddell is an associate
professor of political science at the University of Connecticut.

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Images from North Atlantic Right Whales
From Hunted Leviathan to Conservation Icon
DAVID W. LAIST
See page 66

A masterful study of one
of the bloodiest slave
rebellions in the history
of the Old South.

Nat Turner and the Rising
in Southampton County
DAVID F. ALLMENDINGER JR.
In August 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turner led a bloody uprising that
took the lives of some fifty-five white people — men, women, and children — shocking the
South. Nearly as many black people, all told, perished in the rebellion and its aftermath. Nat
Turner and the Rising in Southampton County presents important new evidence about the
violence and the community in which it took place, shedding light on the insurgents and
victims and reinterpreting the most important account of that event, The Confessions of
Nat Turner.

“The exhaustive research Allmendinger presents greatly enriches our historical understanding
of the Southampton Rebellion through the eyes of its key victims.” — Reviews in History
“Allmendinger’s great achievement is that he made full use of ‘new’ primary sources related to the
uprising of 1831 — new sources hitherto hidden in plain sight. Most importantly, he understood
the significance of this material and knew exactly how to mine it for valuable new insights into
virtually every aspect of Nat Turner’s rebellion.” — Reviews in American History
“No one has done more to corroborate and sync the details, nor to illuminate Turner’s inspirations
and goals. Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County is a model of historical
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methodology, and goes further than any other previous work in helping readers understand
Turner’s motives and meaning.” — African American Intellectual History Society
“We are all in David Allmendinger’s debt for the labor of research that has given The Rising in

Southampton County its absent material context.” — Law and History Review
David F. Allmendinger Jr. is professor emeritus of history at the University of Delaware. He is
the author of Paupers and Scholars: The Transformation of Student Life in Nineteenth-Century
New England and Ruffin: Family and Reform in the Old South.

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The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science American

True Yankees
The South Seas and the Discovery of American Identity
DANE A. MORRISON
Honorable Mention, US Maritime History, John Lyman Book Awards

History

After breaking free
from British rule,
American identity had
more to do with sailing to
the East than trekking into
the West.

With American independence came the freedom to sail anywhere in the world under
a new flag. During the years between the Treaty of Paris and the Treaty of Wangxi,
Americans first voyaged past the Cape of Good Hope, reaching the ports of Algiers and
the bazaars of Arabia, the markets of India and the beaches of Sumatra, the villages of
Cochin, China, and the factories of Canton. Drawing on private journals, letters, ships’
logs, memoirs, and newspaper accounts, Dane A. Morrison’s True Yankees traces
America’s earliest encounters on a global stage through the exhilarating experiences of
five Yankee seafarers.
“Although part of US cultural and economic history, the role of long-distance sea trade in
developing the nation’s character and global outlook in the early national period has not been
discussed until now. The book is informative and entertaining, a rare combination. Highly
recommended.” — Choice
“Often gripping and always engaging. True Yankees makes a very real and highly insightful
contribution to our understanding of early America’s place within the Pacific world.” — Journal

of Pacific History
“An excellent book contributing valuable information on America’s early story. Anyone interested
in the birth of our nation and how we entered into the world of commerce will find this a detailed
resource.” — Pirates and Privateers
Dane A. Morrison is a professor of early American history at Salem State University. He is
the author of A Praying People: Massachusett Acculturation and the Failure of the Puritan

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Mission, 1600 – 1690 and the coeditor of Salem: Place, Myth and Memory and the World
History Encyclopedia, volumes 11 – 13: The Age of Global Contact.
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American History

When preserving our
history, what do we choose
to value, why, and who
decides?

Who Owns America’s Past?
The Smithsonian and the Problem of History
ROBERT C. POST
Honorable mention, National Council on Public History Book Award
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice
In 1994, when the National Air and Space Museum announced plans to display the Enola
Gay, the B-29 sent to destroy Hiroshima with an atomic bomb, the ensuing political uproar
left the museum’s parent Smithsonian Institution entirely unprepared. Why did this particular
object arouse such controversy? From an insider’s perspective, Robert C. Post’s Who Owns
America’s Past? offers insight into the politics of display and the interpretation of history.
“Post’s thoughtful elucidation of the exhibits and the ensuing controversies demonstrate the
complexities of the environment in the national museum in the twentieth century.” — Choice
“A detailed insider’s look at growth and change across the institution. The book offers a rich and
readable intellectual biography of the Smithsonian.” — Journal of American History
“The Smithsonian finally gets its Washington insider-tells-all memoir. Who Owns America’s Past?
documents the value of the Smithsonian’s distinctive culture — and also the way it has kept the
institution from being all that it might be.” — The American Historian
“Weaves original primary source research, scholarly synthesis, and personal experiences into a highly
readable study of the cultural history of America’s most popular museum institution.” — Museums

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and Social Issues
Robert C. Post was employed by the Smithsonian for twenty-three years and was responsible
for several of the technological collections and for the content of major exhibits. His books
include Every Four Years: The American Presidency and In Context: History and the History of

Technology, and he is the former editor of the Society for the History of Technology’s journal,
Technology and Culture. In 2001 he was awarded the Society’s highest honor, the Leonardo
da Vinci Medal.
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History of Medicine

Marrow of Tragedy
The Health Crisis of the American Civil War
MARGARET HUMPHREYS

Soldiers lay wounded
or sick as both sides
struggled to get them fit
to return to battle.

Winner, George Rosen Prize, American Association for the History of Medicine
The Civil War was the greatest health disaster the United States has ever experienced,
killing more than a million Americans and leaving many others invalided or grieving. Poorly
prepared to care for wounded and sick soldiers as the war began, Union and Confederate
governments scrambled to provide doctoring and nursing, supplies, and shelter for those
felled by warfare or disease.
In telling the stories of soldiers, families, physicians, nurses, and administrators,
historian Margaret Humphreys concludes that medical science was not as limited at the
beginning of the war as has been portrayed. Medicine and public health clearly advanced
during the war, however — and continued to do so after military hostilities ceased.
“An immensely readable synthesis of what [Humphreys] terms ‘the greatest health disaster that this
country has ever experienced.’ ” — The News & Observer
“A compelling story of Americans, civilian and military, struggling together to do acts of mercy and
create better environments during an era of brother against brother bloodshed.” — Civil War Book

Review
“Marrow of Tragedy is likely to remain the definitive general medical history of the war for years
to come.” — Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

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Margaret Humphreys is the Josiah Charles Trent Professor in the History of Medicine, a

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professor of history, and a professor of medicine at Duke University. She is the author of

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Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War, Malaria: Poverty,

978-1-4214-2277-0

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Race, and Public Health in the United States, and Yellow Fever and the South.

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European History

How we learned to
distinguish past from
present and see the world
historically.

The Birth of the Past
ZACHARY SAYRE SCHIFFMAN
foreword by Anthony Grafton
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice
How did people learn to distinguish between past and present? How did they come to see
the past as existing in its own distinctive context? In The Birth of the Past, Zachary Sayre
Schiffman explores these questions in his sweeping survey of historical thinking in the
Western world.
Featuring a foreword by the eminent historian Anthony Grafton, this fascinating
book draws upon a diverse range of sources to uncover the meaning of the past and its
relationship to the present.
“Complex and erudite, confident and controversial. As Schiffman’s brilliant argument suggests, anachronism not only helps define the past but becomes its doppelgänger.” — Times Literary Supplement
“Lively, brilliant, and erudite. [Schiffman’s] learned and engaging style [and] fresh, stimulating ideas
provide a intellectual feast not only for students of Western civilization, but for those of us seeking to
understand other traditions. Essential.” — Choice
“ Schiffman provides a masterful account of the emergence of modern notions of historical causation
that begins with Thucydides and ends more than two thousand years later with Montesquieu and
Herder.” — Sixteenth Century Journal

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“Anyone with an interest in the history of ideas, or the history of historiography for that matter, will

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find that this book repays close attention.” — Reviews in History
Zachary Sayre Schiffman is the Bernard Brommel Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus in
the Department of History at Northeastern Illinois University. He is the author of On the Threshold

of Modernity: Relativism in the French Renaissance, the coauthor of Information Ages: Literacy,
Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution, and the editor of Humanism and the Renaissance.
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Woodrow Wilson Center Press

Rock and Roll in the Rocket City
The West, Identity, and Ideology in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk, 1960 – 1985

Russian History

Tracing the impact of rock
and roll on Soviet-era
Ukrainian culture.

SERGEI I. ZHUK
How did rock music and other products of Western culture come to pervade youth
culture in Brezhnev-era Dniepropetrovsk, a Ukrainian city essentially closed to outsiders
and heavily policed by the KGB? In Rock and Roll in the Rocket City, Sergei I. Zhuk
assesses the impact of Westernization on the city’s youth, examining the degree to
which the consumption of Western music, movies, and literature ultimately challenged
the ideological control maintained by state officials.

“An invaluable addition to a less researched but culturally transformative period between
Khrushchev’s ‘thaw’ and Gorbachev’s perestroika. Illustrations, an excellent bibliography,
and richly informed footnotes abound.” — Choice
“Refreshingly new and rich in insights.” — Russian Review
“Zhuk’s innovative book opens up a new field of inquiry, one that raises fundamental questions about what we really know about how the Soviet Union worked.” — Transitions Online
“[Zhuk] makes his case convincingly in his thoroughly researched and well-organized study
of western cultural influences during his youth in his home city.” — Russian History

“Rock and Roll in the Rocket City is crammed with food for thought and should provoke
many productive conversations in the field of Soviet history and beyond.” — Slavic Review
“Rock and Roll in the Rocket City should be included in every course taught on twentieth-century
Ukraine.” — Slavonic and East European Review

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Sergei I. Zhuk is a professor of history at Ball State University. He is the author of Russia’s
Lost Reformation: Peasants, Millennialism, and Radical Sects in Southern Russia and Ukraine,

1830 – 1917. He was a Kennan Institute Research Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in
2002 – 2003.
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New in Paperback

Education Tech.edu:
A Hopkins Series on Education and Technology

Games and social media
can improve college access,
attract and support
students, and boost rates
of completion.

Postsecondary Play
The Role of Games and Social Media in Higher Education
edited by WILLIAM G. TIERNEY, ZOË B. CORWIN,
TRACY FULLERTON, and GISELE RAGUSA
The college application process — which entails multiple forms, essays, test scores, and
deadlines — can be intimidating. For students without substantial school and family support, the complexity of this process can become a barrier to access. William G. Tierney,
Tracy Fullerton, and their teams at the University of Southern California approach this challenge innovatively. Using the tools of online games and social media, they have developed
ways to make applying for college much less intimidating.
“A worthwhile addition to the dynamic body of knowledge through the scholarship of teaching and
learning. Its key arguments cross geographic borders, and the key themes are timeless.” — Canadian

Journal of Higher Education
“Summons a chorus of experts and articulates their varied and informative perspectives through
clearly written and well-organized essays. Those hoping to understand better the state of higher
education and the role that games and social media will play in its development should certainly
read this book.” — American Journal of Play
“Recommended for educators and the technology community.” — Library Journal
William G. Tierney is the Wilbur Kieffer Professor of Higher Education and co-director of the
Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California. Zoë B. Corwin is
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an associate professor of research at the Pullias Center. Tracy Fullerton is the director of the
Game Innovation Lab at USC. Gisele Ragusa is the director of USC’s STEM Consortium.

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Education

Reengineering the University
How to Be Mission Centered, Market Smart, and Margin Conscious
WILLIAM F. MASSY

How can colleges and
universities improve
efficiency while preserving
academic values?

Higher education expert William F. Massy’s decades as a professor, senior university
officer, and consultant have left him with a passionate belief in the need for reform
in America’s traditional universities. In Reengineering the University, he addresses
widespread concerns that higher education’s costs are too high, learning falls short of
objectives, disruptive technology and education models are mounting serious challenges
to traditional institutions, and administrators and faculty are too often unwilling or unable
to change.
“Massy’s in-depth yet highly accessible analysis is a must-read for any academic leader.”

— Academic Leader
“William Massy is a complex, deeply knowledgeable man: half hopeless romantic about the value
and high purposes of higher education and half pragmatic engineer focused on costs, efficiency,
and metrics. That combination proves to be just right for this wise and insightful book.” — Michael
S. McPherson, The Spencer Foundation
“Reengineering the University spells out the efforts that William Massy has made throughout his
extraordinary career to develop models to aid academic institutions in improving their cost efficiency and academic quality.” — Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Cornell Higher Education Research Institute
“This book is a game changer. Massy builds a strong case for his ‘reengineering tools’ which any
university leader would find remarkably helpful in tackling critical issues of quality-conscious

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cost containment.” — Paula Myrick Short, University of Houston

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William F. Massy, a higher education consultant, is professor emeritus of education and

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978-1-4214-1899-5

business administration and a former vice president and vice provost at Stanford University.
The author of Honoring the Trust: Quality and Cost Containment in Higher Education,
he is the former president of the Jackson Hole Higher Education Group.
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Education / Interdisciplinary Studies

The first critical history
of interdisciplinary efforts
and movements in the
modern university.

Undisciplining Knowledge
Interdisciplinarity in the Twentieth Century
HARVEY J. GRAFF
Interdisciplinarity — or the interrelationships among distinct fields, disciplines, or branches
of knowledge in pursuit of new answers to pressing problems — is one of the most contested topics in higher education today. Some see it as a way to break down the silos of
academic departments and foster creative interchange, while others view it as a destructive force that will diminish academic quality and destroy the university as we know it. In
Undisciplining Knowledge, acclaimed scholar Harvey J. Graff presents readers with the
first comparative and critical history of interdisciplinary initiatives in the modern university.
Scholars across the disciplines, specialists in higher education, administrators, and
interested readers will find the book’s multiple perspectives and practical advice on building and operating — and avoiding fallacies and errors — in interdisciplinary research and
education invaluable.
“[A] complex tapestry of the history of interdisciplinary knowledge production and institutionalization. Undisciplining Knowledge offers a detailed and illuminating account of the historical and
intellectual forces that shaped interdisciplinarity in the twentieth century and those that continue
to do so today.” — Science Magazine
“Graff’s carefully-argued book is much to be welcomed.” — The Quarterly Review of Biology
“I am fascinated by Undisciplining Knowledge. The most comprehensive and complicating

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examination of interdisciplinary study yet undertaken. Graff pushes on the boundaries of
received wisdom.” — Mike Rose, author of Why School? Reclaiming Education for All of Us
Harvey J. Graff is the Ohio Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies and a professor of English and
history at the Ohio State University. He is the author of The Literacy Myth: Cultural Integration

and Social Structure in the Nineteenth Century, Conflicting Paths: Growing Up in America, and
The Dallas Myth: The Making and Unmaking of an American City.
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Literary History

Cults and Conspiracies

Explore 2,000 years of
conspiracy in literature.

A Literary History
THEODORE ZIOLKOWSKI
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice
Fascination with the arcane is a driving force in this comprehensive survey of conspiracy
fiction. Theodore Ziolkowski traces the evolution of cults, orders, lodges, secret societies, and conspiracies through various literary manifestations, down to the thrillers of the
twenty-first century. Arguing that the lure of the arcane throughout the ages has remained
a constant factor of human fascination, Ziolkowski demonstrates that the content of conspiracy has shifted from religion by way of philosophy and social theory to politics.
“Conspiracies, whether attributed to mystery cults, Freemasons, Socialists, or Rosicrucians, pervade
literature from Euripides to Umberto Eco, as Theodore Ziolkowski shows in [this book]. Ziolkowski
has read everything, taking even a 3,000-page German novel in his stride, and summarizes and
analyses his material fascinatingly for lesser mortals.” — Times Literary Supplement
“This is a literary and cultural history for the twenty-first century: fascinating in scope and focus,
striking in its attention to detail, solid in its continuity, and indisputably erudite.” — Choice
“The wealth of examples, the lively and indeed intimate writing style, and the delicate refusal to
go too far in the analysis of paranoid fantasies all contribute to a welcome dealing with mystery,
secrecy, and the arcane.” — Modern Philology
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978-1-4214-2243-5

University. He is the author of Uses and Abuses of Moses: Literary Representations since the

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Enlightenment, German Romanticism and Its Institutions, and Alchemist in Literature: From
Dante to the Present.

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Political Science

How coups happen and
why half of them fail.

Seizing Power
The Strategic Logic of Military Coups
NAUNIHAL SINGH
While coups drive a majority of regime changes and are responsible for the overthrow of
many democratic governments, there has been very little empirical work on the subject.
Seizing Power develops a new theory of coup dynamics and outcomes, drawing on 300
hours of interviews with coup participants and an original dataset of 471 coup attempts
worldwide from 1950 to 2000. Naunihal Singh delivers a concise and empirical evaluation,
arguing that understanding the dynamics of military factions is essential to predicting the
success or failure of coups.

“Singh’s book is an informative read — even if you’re not planning a coup.”
— Washington Post
“A powerful book on military coups. Singh’s argument is convincing and straight
forward. . . . Impressive. This reviewer would not be surprised if Seizing Power quickly
establishes itself as a must-read for students of coups and military politics in the years
to come.” — Perspectives on Politics
“Naunihal Singh spells out a simple, yet powerful insight: the best way to understand
military coups is by focusing on their dynamics rather than their correlates. Fascinating
and comprehensive, Seizing Power is the best piece of social science research on military
coups so far.” — Stathis N. Kalyvas, Yale University

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“Naunihal Singh’s highly original analysis of military coups rightly puts the dy-

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namics within the military front and center. His book will change how we think of
coups.” — Nicolas van de Walle, Cornell University
Naunihal Singh is an assistant professor of international security studies at the Air War College
in Alabama.

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History of Medicine

The Inevitable Hour
A History of Caring for Dying Patients in America
EMILY K. ABEL

Changes in health care
have dramatically altered
the experience of dying
in America.

At the turn of the twentieth century, medicine’s imperative to cure disease increasingly
took priority over the demand to relieve pain and suffering at the end of life. Filled with
heartbreaking stories, The Inevitable Hour demonstrates that professional attention and
resources gradually were diverted from dying patients.
A frank portrayal of the medical care of dying people past and present, The Inevitable
Hour helps to explain why a movement to restore dignity to the dying arose in the early
1970s and why its goals have been so difficult to achieve.

“A powerful assessment of medicine’s involvement with death and dying: a history
highly recommended for any medical or ethical issues holding.” — Midwest Book Review
“Few libraries specializing in the history of medicine will not find this a valuable book
to include in their collections.” — Watermark
“This is an important book that sets current debates over end-of-life care in their
historical context, and reminds readers of the numerous historical decisions that
shape the current situation.” — Choice
“Abel’s book is a strong and welcome addition to the historiography of death and
dying.” — Journal of American History

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Emily K. Abel is professor emerita at the UCLA – Fielding School of Public Health.

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She is the author of many books, including Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring

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978-1-4214-0919-1

for Kin, 1850 – 1940 and Living in Death's Shadow: Family Experiences of Terminal Care
and Irreplaceable Loss (see p. 61).

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The 36-Hour Day is JHUP’s best-selling book, with more than 3 million copies sold since it first
appeared in 1980. It has been called a legend, a bible, and the best of its kind.
The story of how The 36-Hour Day landed on the JHU Press

the Press.” The 36-Hour Day found an appreciative home here

list — how it almost never found a publisher — is itself a

and our press embraced the mission of publishing trusted,

legendary one at the Press.

expert medical information for general readers.

By the late 1970s, Alzheimer Disease was becoming
increasingly known but remained barely understood among

While the good The 36-Hour Day has done is arguably
beyond measure, we can point to at least some numbers that

the general public. Nancy Mace and Peter

suggest the scale of its impact: five editions published (with a

Rabins collaborated on a short booklet

sixth coming out in 2017); sales in excess of 3 million copies;

helping caregivers understand the disease.

massive review attention and numerous awards. With dozens

Overwhelmed by requests for the oft-

of books about Alzheimer Disease now available, The 36-Hour

mimeographed booklet, Mace and Rabins

Day remains the leading resource for caregivers.

explored the possibility of expanding it into
a book, but were repeatedly turned away
by commercial publishers who didn’t see
a market.

Few works the Press has published match the reach and impact of The 36-Hour Day, and we salute and thank our friends
and colleagues, Nancy Mace and Peter Rabins,
for their exceptional work and achievement.

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of this bestselling classic in this catalog.

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